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Heritage park improvementBy Sherry Greenfield

Walking and jogging around the Heritage

Farm Park in Walkersville will soon be easier since the town is planning to expand the walking paths.

The Walkersville Town Com-missioners, at their August 13

town meeting, unanimously ac-cepted a bid of $56,750 from Frederick County Paving to build 3,950 feet of new paths. Money for the project will come in part from the state’s Open Space Program. The town will contribute $23,135 toward the project, with much of that money coming from a reserve

fund for park development.“This project is definitely

needed,” Commissioner Debbie Zimmerman said. “This will complete the paths.”

Heritage Farm Park, located on Devilbiss Bridge Road across from Glade Elementary School, already has a 9-hole golf course, baseball fields, softball fields,

soccer fields, two covered pa-vilions, playground areas, and

walking paths.“I think extended paths will

be a wonderful addition to the park,” Commissioner Russell Winch said.

New playground coming

By Sherry Greenfield

The Woodsboro Regional Park will soon have a new

playground, thanks to a state grant of $129,356.

The Town of Woodsboro was awarded the Maryland Open Space Community Parks and Playgrounds Grant to use for the construction of a new, handicap accessible playground.

The playground structure is for children ages 5 to 12.

After soliciting design and pricing proposals from sev-eral recreation design compa-nies, town commissioners vot-ed unanimously at their Aug. 12 meeting to hire playground Specialists Inc., of Thurmont. The company will build the new playground on the south side of the Woodsboro Regional Park, east of Israel Creek.

“The whole purpose of put-ting together this proposal is that we want to start encour-aging usage at this end of the park,” said Commissioner Bill Rittelmeyer, who handled the bidding process.

The company has proposed designing and building the new playground for $126,272.75. They are proposing to use the remaining $3,083.25 to install

new barbecue grills, volleyball courts, and benches at the park - items the town had not origi-nally asked for.

“I asked them not to leave any money on the table,” Rit-telmeyer said.

The company has constructed playgrounds throughout Fred-erick County, including Wood-sboro, Liberty, North Frederick, Middletown Lincoln, Wolfs-ville and Emmitsburg elemen-tary schools. They have also built playgrounds for the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, Fort Detrick, the Brunswick Crossing housing development, and the Middletown Valley Apartments.

Rittelmeyer said the new playground at the Woodsboro Regional Park will not have adult swings or a merry-go-round because of the wear and

tear on the rubber surface. A child swing suspended off the ground and pushed by an adult can be built.

“Swings where kids drag their feet will only tear the surface up and create a maintenance problem,” he said. “A merry-go-round where kids run in the same circle pushing it will wear and be a maintenance problem as well.”

Commissioner Ken Kellar said he was disappointed the playground will only have tod-dler swings. “My only regret is seeing those older swings go away,” he said. “To me it’s a loss of adult swings.”

Meanwhile, Rittelmeyer said nothing will be built until the town has the grant money in hand. “They won’t order a stick of equipment until we have the grant,” he said.

Trimmer praised Rittel-meyer for his work on the bid process.”I’d like to commend Bill for doing this,” he said. “He did an excellent job.”

Computer image of proposed playground

Parking problemsBy Sherry Greenfield

Relief could soon be coming to the residents living along

Frederick Street in Walkersville that are upset with people parking in front of their houses.

The Walkersville Town Com-missioners, at their Aug. 13 meeting, tentatively approved a plan to issue parking permits to those residents living across from the Glade Valley Nursing and Re-habilitation Center on Frederick Street. Issuing permits would al-low those residents to park on

the street in front of their hous-es. Each household would receive two permits.

“I think there does need to be a degree of restricted parking down there,” said Andy Dewese, the town’s code enforcement officer. “They live down there, so they should be able to park there.”

Parking signs are current-ly posted in front of the nurs-ing home restricting the number of hours a car can be parked. But the number of parked cars from nearby Walkersville High School and the nursing home has been

a frequent problem for residents.“There’s a lot of issues down

there now,” Dewese said. “It’s not a huge issue, but I think they should be able to park there.”

Commissioner Gary Baker said permitted parking should be for residents only. Restricted parking should continue in front of the businesses.

“I think the residents will be happy,” he said.

The council decided to take a formal vote on the permitted parking issue when Commission-er Chad Weddle is in attendance.

Weddle, who lives on Frederick Street, was not at the meeting.

On another note, Dewese said as the town’s code enforce-ment officer he has been busy this year investigating complaints from residents on issues rang-ing from tall grass to snow-cov-ered sidewalks. Dewese said so far this year, he has received 260 complaints from residents. That number is significantly higher than the 120 complaints he re-ceived last year.

Dewese, who blamed the win-ter’s bad weather for the rise in complaints, said the frustration comes when residents fail to no-tify their homeowner’s associa-tion first, before coming to him.

“They’re still coming in even if

they have a homeowner’s associa-tion,” he said. “If somebody has a complaint about a neighbor’s grass, go to the [homeowner’s as-sociation],” he said. “If they have [an association] that deals with it, and it doesn’t get done, I’ll take care of it.”

Failure to cut grass is a $100 fine from the town. The fine is posted on the homeowner’s wa-ter bill.

“We get our money,” Burgess Ralph Whitmore said.

Dewese said of the 260 com-plaints, all but two have been re-solved. The complaint process is unanimous.

“I’m not getting many dinner invitations,” he joked. “But it’s going good.”

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Woodsboro Days updateAll events planned for one dayThe Woodsboro-Walkersville

Times is sponsoring a contest/event called Finding Woodsboro. Over $300 in prizes have already been donated by local businesses.

Finding Woodsboro is a photo scavenger hunt open to anyone on the planet. On the morning of October 20, the website Finding-Woodsboro.com will post 6 pho-tographs or paintings of scenes in Woodsboro. Contestants will go about town finding the scenes and taking “selfies” and e-mailing them to the contest e-mail address to prove they found the scene. Par-ticipants who find all 6 locations will receive prizes. There will be prizes for several of the fastest fin-

ishers. There will also be drawings to award several other prizes. The drawing will be held among the contestants that found all 6 loca-tions but did not win a “speed “ prize. This gives the opportuni-ty for seniors, parents with small children, or those who just want to take it easy to participate at their leisure and still have a chance at a prize. For specific details check www.FindingWoodsboro.com.

Mary Klotz of Forestheart Stu-dio in Woodsboro has been co-ordinating plein air paintings of scenes in Woodsboro. At the time of printing, it is not clear whether any paintings will be ready for use in the Finding Woodsboro contest.

Check the website on October 20

to see if art is included.The Historical Society will hold

its annual 5K race on October 20, at 9:00 am, in the Woodsboro Regional Park. Register online at www.woodsborohistoricalsociety.org or the morning of the race 7:30 -8:30 at the park. For infor-mation, call Jay Wolfe at 301-676-5312.

Woodsboro Evangelical Luther-an Church will hold a Family Fun Festival on October 20, food, yard sales. From 8:00 am until 3:00 pm at 101 South Main Street. Spaces are available for rent, for more in-formation contact Robin DeLaut-er 301-845-7389.

Walkersville election results

Ken Kellar

On September 10, fifteen per-cent of the registered voters in Walkersville chose their Town offi-cials for the next three years. More specifically, 672 of the 4500 regis-tered voters actually voted.

Chad Weddle retains the po-sition of Burgess. Burgess vote counts were as follows: Don Schil-dt 186, Chad W. Weddle 312, and Russell Winch 164.

The 5 Commissioners to take their seats on October 10 are: Mi-chael Reed Bailey, Mary Ann Bro-die-Ennis, Tom Gilbert, Michael L. McNiesh, and John Zimmer-man, Jr.

Commissioner vote counts were as follows: Michael Reed Bai-ley 277, Mary Elizabeth “Bet-sey” Brannen 274, Mitchell Bran-nen 163, Mary Ann Brodie-Ennis 365, Jacki Fogle Dvorak 209, Tom Gilbert 377, Michael L. McNiesh

301, Robert Davison Port 35, Dan Yeeles 113, Robert “Bob” Yoder 221, and John Zimmerman, Jr. 279.

To summarize, the incumbent Burgess was re-elected. There are 4 new Commissioners. Of the 5 Incumbent Commissioners, on-ly one incumbent returns with the other 4 incumbents having ei-ther retired from the race, or they sought a higher office.

The Heritage Farm bank barn, built in the 1880’s is in need of care. Photo Wikipedia

Heritage bank barn needs workJohn Ruskin, of Fitzgerald’s

Heavy Timber Construction com-pany in Thurmont, gave a lengthy presentation to the Walkersville Town government on September 12 regarding potential modifica-tions to the bank barn at Heritage Farm Park,

The bank barn was estimated to have been built in the 1880’s or earlier. John Ruskin stated the barn is in good condition consid-ering its age, but that it needed about $120,000 in work to restore weather resistance and structural integrity.

Ruskin proposed the work be done in four phases. The following is a brief summary of Mr. Ruskin’s very detailed presentation.

Phase 1, estimated to cost about $29,000, would fix a gap in the roof, paint the roof, fix some gut-ters, add snowboards to the roof, and perform some wood-eating pest control.

Phase 2 would replace windows and wood louvers and would cost around $9,800.

Phase 3 would include some framing structural repairs and re-place wood siding on the cantile-vered portion of the barn and was estimated to cost $34,000.

Phase 4 involves structural work including building 15 new post

foundations and is estimated to cost $47,000.

The schedule of the phases was suggested as: phase 1 within 1year, phases 2 and 3 within the next 5 years and phase 4 within the next 20 years.

Mr. Ruskin stated this work would “stop the bleeding” and preserve the barn indefinitely. One commissioner asked if the barn could be used for events such as a picnic pavilion after the work was completed. Mr. Ruskin stated concerns with floor loading and suggested an engineer would be needed to assess the floor strength.

After hearing the presentation, outgoing Commissioner Don-ald Schildt stated he was “kick-ing himself ” for not considering use of the barn earlier. He stated it would have been a good alterna-tive to the GVAA recreation build-ing that has already cost the Town $250,000 while still only a design on paper.

Mr. Ruskin also briefed the Town on the potential upgrades to the barn ranging from tool storage to office space to residences and schools.

The Town deferred any action on the barn-work proposal for the incoming administration that will be seated on October 10.

Local Unified Team Sports athletes sweep the state titles

Unified Team Sports involves athletes with special needs com-bined with non-special needs stu-dent-partners. Los Angeles Rams tackle Rob Havenstein participat-ed in Unified Sports Track at Lin-ganore High School.

Athletes participate in three in-ter-school activities during the

school year: Tennis (Fall), Boc-ce Ball (Winter), and Track and Field (Spring). Walkersville High School Unified Team Sports has won State Track Titles 3 out of the last 4 years; State Bocce Ball Titles the last two years; and State Ten-nis Titles the last three years. The 2017-18 School Year is the first

time a Frederick County school has swept state titles in all 3 Uni-fied Team Sports Categories.

In the spring of 2017, a film crew from ESPN recorded one of the team’s track practices which was used in an educational vid-eo on “How to Coach Unified Sports.”

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From the editor

Political science

Political science is bad enough when the term is limited to the study of manipulating people. Unfortunately, “political science” is taking on a new meaning. It is starting to mean the infusion of political considerations into the granting, execution, and discus-sion of inquiry into natural and human phenomena.

This issue carries the third of a related group of articles expos-ing some very inconvenient truths about certain “green” efforts that have major political backing.

In August, we discussed solar heat islands. To summarize, fields of solar arrays are proven to heat up the climate. The article also dis-cussed the very shaky science as-sociated with claims that reduced carbon dioxide output associat-

ed with the solar arrays compen-sates for the extra heating caused by paving over meadows and farm fields with black solar panels.

In September, we compared composting yard waste to the good ol’ days of burning the stuff. Our inquiry indicated that composting actually produces more “green-house” gas impact than burning. That conclusion was drawn even before considering the pollution associated with transporting and mechanically shredding the com-posted material.

This month we wrap up the “political science” series by dis-cussing the global warming im-pact of trees. Trees warm the plan-et, and tree coverage is increasing significantly on the planet yet we never hear climatologists discuss

the impact of trees on tempera-tures, nor do they include the ef-fect in their computer models.

As I wrapped up the third “in-convenient” article, I felt that the evidence of extreme scientific bias and suppression of open informa-tion and dialogue was limited to the climate field. However, a re-cent news article showed the dis-ease that is attacking western civ-ilization’s science practices knows no bounds.

Brown University recently apol-ogized for issuing a press release describing the research results of one of their professors. Was the study wrong? No. Did the re-searcher violate established proto-cols? No.

The problem with Dr. Lisa Litt-man’s research was that her factual findings might interfere with the transgender political agenda.

Dr. Littman conducted a small-scale (hundreds) study of youths in Britain suffering from rap-id onset gender dysphoria. This phenomenon involves children and teens requesting physical sex modifications with no prior in-dication of the mental disorder. Note that the psychology commu-nity recently changed their men-tal health manual to delist gender dysphoria as a mental disorder cit-ing the ability of transgenders to live a healthy life. That claim ap-parently disregards the 40% sui-cide attempt rate for transgenders. This rate was only matched by persecuted Jews in Nazi Germany. Scientific or political?

Dr. Littman’s study revealed pockets of rapid onset gender dys-

phoria. These pockets often in-volved groups of friends with only one transgender friend who then all requested sex changes. The sta-tistics show a huge deviation from dysphoria rates, and her paper in-dicates a social impact of friends and heavy social media use.

There has been an exponen-tial rise in gender dysphoria over the last several years, and Dr. Lit-tman’s paper indicates much of it is a socially driven phenomena. Will the study be expanded? No. It will be suppressed. Will Dr. Lit-

tman be lauded for her ground breaking insights? No. She will be drummed out of Brown.

At the time I penned this edi-torial, I could still find Dr. Litt-man’s research paper on the web. I could also find this article titled, As a Former Dean of Harvard Med-ical School, I Question Brown’s Fail-ure to Defend Lisa Littman written by former Brown dean Jeffrey S. Flier. If you are interested, down-load it soon before it is suppressed.

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Cure the disease not the symptomAs our U.S. Senators are col-

lectively disgracing our nation with their Supreme Court ap-pointment process antics, pun-dits would have us believe the key question is whether or not a tipsy teen age boy got rough with a girl for maybe a minute. Apparently a man’s career and the alignment of our most powerful court hang on the determination of the veracity of one person’s accusations. The truth will very likely remain un-known, that is, unknown to those of us who believe in law, logic and due process.

The selection controversy is re-ally a symptom of two equally bad diseases. I’ll call them hate and power.

Hate would have us destroy a man for one heinous act (maybe even a “heinous” belief ). A soci-ety cannot long survive such hate should its practice become univer-sal. Most people could not with-stand the scrutiny of the various self-righteous mobs influencing society these days. Stores would be shuttered, executives forced to resign maybe even people evicted from their apartments.

Another disease at play in the appointment hearings is the grow-ing malignant power of the courts. Mark Levin wrote a book titled Men in Black over 20 years ago that documented the fact that the Supreme Court started exceeding its authority and thus growing its power from the very first days.

The Supreme Court regularly violates the 10th Amendment to the Constitution:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Con-stitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the peo-ple.

The courts accept way too ma-ny cases, Roe v Wade being one of them. Abortion advocates are ter-rified of a constructionist court. It would likely refer abortion issues “to the States”.

What would that do? Here in Maryland it would ensure abor-tion rights were absolutely safe with at least a 70% approval of abortions. If the 10th Amend-ment was honored by the higher courts, Marylanders would not have to worry about the future of

abortions in Maryland because of the next Supreme Court appoint-ment.

As a citizen I believe I and our appointed and elected officials are bound by law and honor to fol-low the Constitution. I do how-ever think the Constitution is in-herently flawed with regard to the judiciary. The judiciary vio-lates the 10th amendment regu-larly and our system has allowed it to happen. Some are happy with the abuse, frustrated others have not divined a legal way to stop the abuse.

A proper Supreme Court would be quite predictable and much less scary. When the courts turned away issues such as abortion and left the states free to choose their laws and policies, citizens could channel their concerns and frus-trations as the drafters of the Con-stitution intended, through civ-il discourse and the legislative process up to and including the amendment process. If so many people want abortion to be the “law of the land” then the civil and responsible thing should be done, amend the Constitution.

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October 7, 191877 more flu victims at Camp

Meade. Washington--In an effort to

meet the great demand for phy-sicians in treating the Spanish in-fluenza epidemic, which is sweep-ing this country, conferences were held here today looking toward the mobilization of the nation’s entire Red Cross force. The mo-bilization will be made through public health service officials. It was stated that the epidemic in cantonments is under control, but the civil population is with-out adequate resources for treat-ment.

Baltimore—Seventy-teen men, the largest number of deaths from influenza yet reported from Camp Meade, were announced today. Two-hundred and thirteen men have previously died of the disease there. Two-hundred and ninety-seven other cases of influ-enza were reported from there to-day and 235 more cases of phen-emon.

Washington—General Charles A. Doyen, commander of the Marine Corps training camp in Quantico, VA, died there last night of influenza. General Doy-en returned from France some months ago.

There will be no general open-ing of schools, churches, theaters, and peace business in Frederick County as of precaution against further breaking out of the dread-ful Spanish influenza. This deci-sion was reached yesterday morn-ing at a conference attended by the members of the county com-missioners, sitting on a board of health and Dr. D. C. Routson, a main health officer.

At the conclusion of the health conference yesterday morn-ing, Dr. D. C. Routson, County Health officer, made the follow-ing statement:

“Health Officials think the public and education enterprises should go on in their usual way and the best they can do under the circumstances is the best way to quiet any unduly excitement and bring people to a common sense view of the matter. The dis-ease, evidently, is spending its fu-

ry and in a few days there ought to be a material decrease in the number of cases and certainly in the severity of the cases prevalent.

“If people are afraid to send their children to school, the wise thing to do would be to have them remain at home until they feel that the danger is past. Ma-ny localities of the county are not suffering from the disease, and it would be an unfair proposition to close schools in all districts sim-ply because the disease was preva-lent in some of the districts. Like-wise, it would be unfair to have the school closed and large indus-trial plants moving picture the-aters, Liberty loan gatherings, and all other war activities go-ing on in full blast in an effort to get people together in crowded halls, and permit these to carry on their usual activities. If occa-sion demands in certain sections for the closing of schools, that proposition will be met through the proper authorities, the Coun-ty Health Board and the Board of Education; but the appeal is made to people generally to deal with the proposition from a com-mon sense standpoint and not get unduly excited.”

Many people from Frederick County passed away with influ-enza or phenomena during this time as well as the many from Camp Meade.

October 10Fewer allied ships sent down.

American Naval Base, France—The record of submarine activity for the summer months, June, Ju-ly, and August, the period most favorable to submarines, is now practically made up and shows two highly satisfactory results, a steady fall in the Allied shipping sunk and a steady rise in the sub-marines destroyed.

This summer period also cov-ered the tremendous arrivals as equally satisfactory; none of the incoming troopships lost and ev-ery soldier landed. Such losses as have occurred have been on out-going ships, mainly freighters go-ing back with little or no cargo.

As the American naval con-voy service has borne, the brunt

of this protection and the results achieved for the first summer are a notable tribute to the American fleet. In the Mediterranean, there are five of the Allied navies co-op-erating in the protective service—French, British, American, Ital-ian, and Japanese.

October 11Harry C. Dorcus guilty; fined

$60. Harry C. Dorcus, about 80 years old, of near Woodsboro, was convicted of assault and bat-tery on George Creager, about 60 years old, of the same locality, at a trial before the court. Chief Judge Hammond Urner and Judge Glenn H. Worthington on the bench, yesterday morning, and fined $60 and costs amount-ing in all to about $110. Dorcus and his father Charles W. Dorcus were indicted by the recent grand jury for assault with intent to kill and also assault and battery. They were acquitted of the for-mer charge, but found guilty on the latter.

The trouble occurred last Au-gust on the property of Creager and resulted in the latter being very roughly handled. It seems that Dorcus had a right of way over a lane on the property of Creager with the understanding that he close the gate whenever he passed through. On the day of the assault, Dorcus drove a team through the gate and did not stop to close it.

October 19“Flu” death rate lower. Eight

deaths from influenza and pneu-monia distributed: three in the city; two at Brunswick; one near Woodsboro; one at Harmony; and one at Ijamsville occurred yesterday. The death near Bolivar was an infant, 10 months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Baker.

Deaths reported yesterday were distributed as follows:

Friday—John W. H. Stotlemy-er, near Woodsboro; Mrs. Charles Bowers, Brunswick; Miss Sar-ah Freedman, Brunswick; Miss Mamie Gertrude Hiltner, Fred-erick; Miss Helena G. Delaugh-ter, Frederick; Mrs. Mary Virgin-

ia Fogle, Frederick; and Wilmer Daniel Swomley, Ijamsville.

Thursday—Mrs. Mary Cathe-rine Sulcer, Frederick.

Wednesday—Louise Butler, Brunswick.

Tuesday—Harry E. Nice, Brunswick.

Sunday—W. LeRoy Evans, Brunswick.

Saturday (last)—Clarence F. Wenner, Brunswick.

While the death rate kept up yesterday, reports from various sections of the county last night were to the effect that the epi-demic is declining. There are a number of cases all over the county, particularly outside of the city, but as a rule these developed some days ago and the disease is running its course.

October 23Influenza notice. The Union

Manufacturing Company hereby give notice that they will be glad to know of any of their employ-ees who are ill or affected by the Spanish influenza. By notifying the officers of this company, such aid and assistance as can be ren-dered will be gladly and prompt-ly given.

Phone 123 or address letter to this company: Union Manufac-turing Company.

Sixteen selects to be sent to Fort Washington at 9:30 a.m. Sixteen men will be sent from home on Friday morning at 9:30 a.m. over the B and O Railroad by the County Exemption Board. They will go to Fort Washington, Md. Twenty-six have been noti-fied to appear before the County Board on Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock, and leave the following morning. The city men have pre-viously been announced.

Those to be sent by the County Board follow:

1917 Registrants—Harvey Roller Mace, Brunswick; John Al-bert Hartsock, Myersville; Lewis Martin Cutsail, Buckeystown; and Roy Cleveland Black, Union Bridge.

June 5, 1918 Registrants—Russell Paul Buhrman, Smiths-burg; Edward Nelson Koontz, Taneytown; Albert Merhle Eck-er, Woodsboro; Herman Sny-

der, R. D. Harney, Robert L. Joy; Burkittsville; and Robert L. Tabler, Ijamsville.

October 29War nearing end, entente cit-

ies claim. Washington—Confir-mation of reports that German U-boats with white flags hoisted, had been seen heading for Kiel came to the State Department in Danish advices this afternoon.

Berne—“The world war will not last longer than a few days: we must arrest the vain flow of our blood,” declared the Social-ist newspaper Vorwaerts, which is now regarded as virtually a Ger-man Government organ. “It is upon Austria bureaucrats who sent the ultimatum to Serbia that the responsibility for the war rests the heaviest. Austria’s disappear-ance willend the war.”

Copenhagen—The Cologne Volks Zeitung says a congress of German bishops has asked the Pope to exercise his influence in favor of a just peace which will prevent the Allies from destroy-ing Germany.

London—The Express says it is informed from authorita-tive sources that the Allied con-ference at Paris soon will present to German the terms of an armi-stice, which, it is believed, will in-clude the occupation of Metz, the Krupp arsenal at Essen and other fortresses of the enemy.

It is believed in diplomatic cir-cles that the publication of the Allied armistice terms will lead to hoisting of the white flag of sur-render by the enemy forces.

Versailles—As the Allied chief-tains gathered here today for the purpose of deliberating on terms of an armistice with Germany, the Central Powers seemed dis-integrating under pressure from within and without.

Marshal Foch is continuing his pressure along the west front from Holland to the Meuse, with the Huns giving ground at important points. Discouraged murmurings seep out from Ger-man, as Von Hindenburg’s whole scheme of retreat imperiled.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO


GOVERNMENT

A note from Sheriff candidate Karl Bickel

Empathy and Outrage Needed

Empathy and outrage are criti-cal to fighting the current opioid crisis that is devastating our coun-ty. It is seldom rational thought that stirs people to the point where they take action to solve a big problem; instead, it’s general-ly emotion that gets us moving, and we must move if we want to stop the current epidemic that is sweeping across our community.

I was a patrol officer and de-tective in Washington, DC in the 1970’s as heroin ravaged that city taking countless lives and contributing to record levels of crime. I saw the devastating ef-fect it can have on a communi-ty in the absence of empathy for the addict coupled with outrage over crime that ignored the un-derlying causes of addiction re-lated criminality. I also saw the positive effects of efforts to treat the addicted and how it eventu-ally led to a reduction in crime.

I don’t care how someone be-came opioid dependent, caught up in addiction and the current epidemic: no one wants to be hooked on opioids. Whether it was the over prescribing by or the inattention of a physician trying to help someone deal with chron-ic or acute pain, an attempt to es-cape the pain of one’s life experi-ences or circumstances or foolish

youthful experimentation, no one wants to be an opioid addict.

Those of us who haven’t been touched by the scourge of ad-diction must show empathy for those fighting to escape the grip of opioids, those fighting for their lives. We need to realize that the horror of addiction could be vis-ited upon any family at any time. We need to remove the stigma of addiction and stop blaming the victim. We need to work together collaboratively to get the addict-ed on a path to recovery, and find the resources to make treatment and long-term follow-up acces-sible and affordable right here in Frederick County.

We also need to be outraged, outraged over the fact that the opioid epidemic is the most se-rious public safety/public health problem to ever be visited on our community and it is not receiving the attention it is due. Local poli-ticians who say, “It needs to run its course,” are part of the prob-lem and not part of the solution. It has been running its course for over a decade and has taken hun-dreds of lives in our community alone. The first six months of this year brought us 30 confirmed and 9 suspected opioid overdose deaths. At this pace 2018 will

break the record as the epidemic continues to “run its course.”

The current sheriff contin-ues to rely only on methods em-ployed in the failed war on drugs with little imagination or innova-tion directed at the problem. We don’t want to abandon effective enforcement efforts, but we do want to modify them where nec-essary and incorporate them into a broader plan to fight the opi-oid epidemic. However, currently there is no plan.

We need a comprehensive plan to address the opioid epidemic in our community that weaves to-gether effective enforcement and treatment with housing, men-tal health resources, jobs, edu-cation and transportation. From the courts to the hospital to pub-lic health and family services, we need everyone at the table. Most of all, we need competent lead-ership from county law enforce-ment that is open and account-able. We need more empathy and outrage. We need change more now than ever!

Karl Bickel is the democratic candi-date for sheriff and can be reached at [email protected]

From the desk of County Executive Jan Gardner

Six weeks! By the time you are reading this there will be just 6 weeks (or less) until the Novem-ber election. Some people call this time period “silly season” due to all the rhetoric and flurry of debate.

Elections do matter. At the end of the day, people are col-lectively hiring who they want to work for them at the local and state level. Last week, I thought about what would have been if the 2014 county election had turned out differently.

We would not have a new teacher pay scale and our starting teacher salary would still be dead last in the state of Maryland.

We would not have saved Citi-zens and Montevue, keeping our promise to our seniors.

We would not likely have a AAA bond rating from all three rating agencies because the pri-or administration raided reserves during their last year in office. I have replaced and added to our reserves putting our fiscal house in order.

We would not likely have add-ed 87 new firefighters, 41 through a federal SAFER grant.

We would not have the Walk-ersville branch library, the Mid-dletown Fire Station, or have broken ground on the Othello Regional Park near Brunswick or Phase II of the Utica District Park.

And, we accomplished all of this with absolutely no increase in taxes.

Growth is the hot topic of the day and certainly the landscape would be very different.

We would likely see houses at the Monrovia Town Center. In-stead, the zoning has been va-cated in large part because the county is now on the side of the citizens.

We would likely have con-tinued to see massive rezoning for more and more housing. In-stead, my administration has ap-proved no new development with the exception of a senior housing project in Urbana. All the other housing you see being built was approved by the prior admin-istration and secured by legal-ly binding developer contracts. I

ended the use of developer rights and responsibility agreements be-cause they have mostly been bad deals for county taxpayers.

We would not have increased our investment in agricultural preservation by 25% preserving over 10,000 acres of farmland in just 4 years. Permanent preserva-tion of our farmland is the ulti-mate way to halt development from our rural areas and maintain our rural way of life.

We would not have ended the “school buy-out” option that al-lowed developers to continue to build houses even when schools are overcrowded. And, we likely would not have built two elemen-tary schools at the same time.

We would not have Livable Frederick as the path forward putting citizens in charge of shaping our future instead of spe-cial interests.

I am proud to have successfully stood up our new form of char-ter government and to have de-livered open, honest government. We can all be proud that Freder-ick County now has the strongest ethics laws in the state of Mary-land.

Together, we have accom-plished much and delivered good government. I am proud to fight for good schools, respon-sible growth, and our high qual-ity of life. I am working hard for more jobs, not more houses. This is the best way to manage the budget and protect taxpayers.

Job one has been protecting taxpayers. I have ended privatiza-tion that cost taxpayers more and re-negotiated some of the bad deals of the past saving taxpayers almost $70 million. Never again will the county give away future tax revenue to residential devel-opers. This will not happen on my watch.

As your County Executive, my job is all about making life better for the people who call Frederick County home.

“Silly season” will likely be filled with more rhetoric than reality. I trust that residents can sort out the fact from the fiction.

If you have questions or want information on any subject, you are welcome to contact me at [email protected] or at 301-600-3190.


From the Desk of Alderman Roger Wilson

Keeping Frederick Affordable for All

Frederick is thriving—every time I turn around, something new and exciting is happening at every corner of our city. But with growth and prosperity comes the challenge of keeping a city afford-able, not just for its top earners, but for the thousands of work-force families that are essential to keeping Frederick alive.

The most recent Asset Lim-ited, Income Constrained, Em-ployed (ALICE) report from the United Way highlights the diffi-cult road an increasing number of Frederick County residents have to travel in order to make ends meet. This year, a whopping 39% of the county’s population—more than 35,000 households—fit the ALICE description of struggling families living off of a survival budget. That’s a five percent in-crease from the 2014 numbers, which tells us this problem isn’t going away. Moreover, these prob-

lems are disproportionately affect-ing our youth and our seniors. In households with people over 65 years of age, 52% are below the ALICE line; in households un-der 25 years old, the numbers are even more stark—with 85% falling into the ALICE descrip-tion. With the number of retir-ees growing each year, combined with Frederick’s real need for an influx of young professionals, this ALICE report is a clear warning that something needs to be done to address Frederick’s affordabili-ty. Without our cashiers, our wait staff, our administrative and nurs-ing assistants, without our secu-rity guards and the folks working hard in the retail and food indus-tries—would Frederick continue to thrive? I don’t think so.

So how do we begin to ad-dress a problem of such magni-tude? The same way that you eat an elephant—one bite at a time.

There’s no single solution to a problem like this one, so I believe we need a variety of different ideas on the table. We need a change to the city’s MPDU (Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit) program, where we can increase the num-ber of affordable housing units developers must include in their plans. We need a change in our Payment in Lieu program as well, which will help ensure that if a de-veloper chooses to opt out of plac-ing the required MPDU’s in their plans, they pay a fee that will go toward other affordable housing developments. We need to look at other communities throughout the region and country that have succeeded in improving their af-fordable housing balance, and use their success to our own ad-vantage. By studying what works in other cities, we can more accu-rately pinpoint the strategies that will work for Frederick.

Another option I’d like to put on the menu is the idea of tiny homes. Houses that range any-where from 100-700 square feet in size—tiny homes are becoming big business across the country. Extremely inexpensive and easy to maintain compared to a stan-dard house, tiny homes can serve as a perfect solution for grandpar-ents wanting to live on the family property (i.e. an accessory dwell-ing unit), for people with spe-cial needs, for live-in caregivers, or for low-income folks or people struggling with homelessness that couldn’t otherwise afford a mort-gage. Tiny homes can make good use of land that can’t be zoned for other kinds of homes or business-es. By preventing that land from becoming just an abandoned lot, and transforming it into afford-able housing, we would be solving two problems at once. Although living in a tiny home isn’t every-

one’s cup of tea, it is an innovative tool that could address the needs of a variety of residents, and we need as many of those in our com-munity toolbox as we can get.

Frederick is thriving, but like any other living thing, we’re going to experience some growing pains. And we need to be innovative, in-dustrious, and committed to find-ing solutions to the problems and daily hardships that so many of our residents are facing today. If we are going to continue to pros-per as a city, we need to do it to-gether, and keep Frederick afford-able for all.

Thanks for reading. I love hear-ing from my constituents, so please don’t hesitate to contact me. I am your representative, and I’m here for you. Write me at [email protected] or call 301-600-1632.

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From the Desk of Earl Robbins – Independent Candidate for County Executive

“I Will Listen”

The changing dynamics & de-mographics of Frederick County require a new type of leadership. A leader who listens. My name is Earl Robbins and I will listen to you! I am running as an Indepen-dent for the role of County Exec-utive. I am not intimidated by the status of others. As an experienced leader I will seek the input from the people I work with and the people I serve.

During my employment with Eastalco Aluminum Company, I was approached by the com-munity three times with land requests. The first was 3.2 acres adjacent to Carroll Manor Ele-mentary School to build a base-ball field for the community. 3.2 acres does not seem like much, but the Japanese owners don’t give up land easily. With my ad-vanced negotiating skills I con-vinced them to donate the land. The next request was 12 acres for St. Joseph-on-Carrollton-

Manor to build a new church fa-cility. Alcoa, the owners at that time, did not usually sell proper-ty piecemeal. Once again I con-vinced them to sell the land to the church. The final request was from the Carroll Manor Recre-ation Council to develop a 27 acre community athletic park. This required a few years of te-dious negotiations, but once again I persevered and Alcoa do-nated the land. These are but a few examples of my unique abil-ity to build consensus & bridge

the gap between those of oppos-ing viewpoints. I will continue this inclusive strategy for all of Frederick County’s pursuits.

I established a community ad-visory board at Eastalco that ini-tially met monthly. The board consisted not only of members of the immediate community, but al-so members from other parts of Frederick County. All questions that the community had were dis-cussed and nothing was off the ta-ble. If elected as your new County Executive I will do what I do best -

I will bring people together based on my cooperative leadership and management skills honed over a span of 40 years - to bring our di-verse county together to overcome obstacles and advance county ob-jectives. I will listen to you!

To learn more, email [email protected] or visit www.friendsforearlrobbins.com or go to Friends for Earl Robbins on facebook.

Thank you for your kind atten-tion and I would appreciate your vote on November 6th.

Shannon Bohrer is the Democratic Candidate for County Council 5th District, Frederick County Good Governance is My Goal

I have been asked many times why I am running for office. I am retired; I had a great career; and I have a very good life. While I am very content with my life, I have been disappointed with the poli-tics in our county for several years. Our elected officials are supposed to work for the citizens: not just for their parties and certainly not for themselves. Accordingly, lis-tening should be the first order of business for our county govern-ment officials. Working for the citizens also necessitates civility. When I say that I want to bring some civility into the County Council, I mean it.

Disagreeing with someone does not require us to be disagreeable. We can have different views, even differences of opinions. It should not surprise anyone that we have differences; in fact we should ex-

pect them. During my long career in law enforcement I experienced those differences many times. Sit-ting in a courtroom, I would hear one side of a case, and when the other side spoke, my first thought was that there were two different cases.

While the differences I encoun-tered in law enforcement were sometimes intense, our current political disagreements seem con-frontational to the point of being dysfunctional. When people don’t work together, very little gets do-ne, and citizens are deprived of ef-fective representation. The people of this county are entitled not only to an accounting of how their tax dollars spent but also to transpar-ency in the representation provid-ed by elected county officials.

Disappointment with politics is not new and is, in fact, very nor-

mal in our society. We make jokes about politicians and the political processes, for example. As Theo-dore Roosevelt said, “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treason-able to the American public.” I be-lieve it is the citizens’ responsibil-ity to critique government and, if possible, to engage in making the necessary changes or solutions.

About me:My wife, Susanne, and I reside

on a small farm outside of Em-mitsburg. We are both retired and enjoy our farm, neighbors, horses, and dog. We very much like where we live and believe that we are for-tunate to live in Frederick Coun-ty, Maryland, where my family has lived for generations.

My background includes 42 years in Law Enforcement, 27 years of which were as a Mary-land State Trooper. Currently, I am a small farmer and small busi-

ness owner in Frederick County. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Crimi-nal Justice and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. Please

visit my website, shannonbohrer.com for more information.


From the desk of County Councilman Otis

Veterans are our Heroes

Veterans have held a very spe-cial place in my heart from when I worked on Capitol Hill during a time that we sent off our precious sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers to fight overseas. Since then the commit-ment and patriotism of those who risk their lives to keep us safe has been quite personal to me. As a re-sult, I seek opportunities to sup-port, in any way possible, our hon-orable Veterans.

We recently passed Bill # 18-11 creating a Veterans Advisory Coun-cil (VAC). Its mission is to connect our local Veterans to the various services and programs that offer various levels of support. I have heard from a number of Veterans, especially Vietnam Veterans, who have noted that they wished there was some connectivity on a local level to help them when they re-turned from combat. This legisla-tion was co-sponsored by Council Vice President M.C. Keegan-Ayer, Council Member Tony Chmelik and myself. We worked together to craft the VAC to work collabora-tively with established military Vet-eran oriented service organizations to develop and promote new and existing programs and services for Veterans and their families within Frederick County. It is designed to work together with other county commissions, boards, councils and county staff related to Veterans’ in-terest. It envisions the creation of a

“one-stop-shop” to be able to assist our Veterans at the local level.

The County Executive received quite a number of letters of inter-est in being part of the VAC. There are also legislatively designated po-sitions to encompass a broad spec-trum of support. The names of the selected individuals will be brought to the County Council for confir-mation in the next few weeks.

I am very excited about this new VAC and fully support this effort as a source of support for our Veterans and hope the VAC kicks off as soon as possible.

On another front, we held a Gold Star Family Tribute here at Win-chester Hall on Tuesday, Septem-ber 25, 2018 to honor the family of U.S. Army PFC James Moore Jr. who was killed in combat in Viet-nam on April 2, 1966. We were de-lighted to receive support from the USA Vietnam War Commemora-tion’s Director MG James Jackson, County Executive Jan Gardner, Frederick City Mayor O’Connor and Aldermen, representatives from the Maryland Congressional Delegation, Fort Detrick’s Com-mander MG Barbara R. Holcomb, MD Veterans Commission Chair-person Fred Shinbur and Mount St. Mary’s President Dr. Tim Train-or, among others. Angela Spenser graced us with her beautiful rendi-tion of the National Anthem and the Fort Detrick Color Guard pre-sented the flags.

It is so important for our nation to recognize the profound sacrifice of those who lost their beloveds in the line of duty. We were honored to be able to present PFC Moore’s mother, Katharine Moore and his sister, Alma Palm with special pins, proclamations, certificates and a posthumous Purple Heart. This event was humbling and yet very rewarding to be able, after 52 years, to express our tremendous appreci-ation to them. It is never too late to say Thank You.

This past April we held a Viet-nam Veteran Pinning Ceremony in coordination with Congressman Jamie Raskin’s office and the Amer-ican Legion Post 11 in Frederick. Along with Congressman Raskin, we were joined by MG James Jack-son and County Executive Garner in pinning 107 Vietnam Veterans. That was another remarkable and profoundly wonderful support for our Veterans.

Please contact my office if you would like more information about the Vietnam War Era Pins and/or Gold Star Family Tributes. It would truly be a privilege to con-duct more of these recognition cer-emonies to honor our valiant He-roes. My executive assistant, Diana Modelski, is very happy to assist. Her number is 301-600-1101 or by email: [email protected].

Thank you,Bud OtisCounty Council President

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A note from County Council At-Large candidate Susan Reeder Jessee

Why to Vote for Susan Reeder Jessee

The 2018 mid-term election is here and who to vote for is the question! Well…let me highlight a few reasons why one of your votes should be cast for Susan Reeder Jes-see for Frederick County Council At-Large.

I have always been someone who gets involved when there is a need and these days there are too many politicians out there who don’t, and run for office as a stepping stone to the next office. I can assure you that is not me. I have a passion to serve the citizens of Frederick County locally and had great men-tors of what public service is sup-posed to be about, from my parents Bruce and Odette Reeder.

I am passionate about making sure all of our children in Fred-erick County have the best edu-cation possible. I along with my children, my husband, my broth-ers and my parents, are all gradu-ates of the Frederick County Pub-lic Schools. I was a basketball and swim coach, scout volunteer, la-crosse/soccer volunteer, and MHS Band Booster President while my children were in school. FCPS is part of who I am and if elected I will make our schools continue to

provide the best education for any child in Frederick County.

I am just as passionate about making sure our seniors have the things they need to live out the rest of their lives here. I was hon-ored to take care of my parents dur-ing the end of their lives and want to make sure we properly address the needs of our seniors, the fasted growing population in the county. I got involved in Friends of Meals on Wheels when I heard there was a waiting list of seniors that need-ed food due to lack of funding, so I helped raise funds to assist the county Meals on Wheels program. If elected I will continue to work hard for the needs for every senior in Frederick County.

I am passionate about making sure that our first responders that serve and protect us 24/7, are al-so protected while they are do-ing their job. Frederick County is blessed to have such a great career and volunteer fire and rescue com-munity that has saved the county money for years. To learn more, I got involved and have served on the Fire and Rescue Advisory board for the past 3 years. I have learned a great deal about what is required

and if elected would make sure these needs are met.

I am passionate about Freder-ick County and have lived here my entire life and a lot of changed. Mostly for the good however along with growth comes growing pains. Managing growth properly takes planning, collaboration, and com-munication. As a current project manager this is what I do every day at work and if elected I will sit around the table with ALL parties involved to come up with the best possible plans moving forward to address future growth that is good for families and the business com-munity.

I am passionate about our agri-culture community and grew up on a farm in Frederick County which I now partially own, and I strong-ly believe that landowners have the right to do with what they want to do with their property, while pay-ing attention to good environmen-tal practices. If elected I will sup-port and protect landowner rights.

These are a few reasons why I feel I have earned a position on the county council and hopefully earned your vote and if elected I will make sure I continue my pas-sion for issues that affect the citi-zens of Frederick County.


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A letter from the Burgess of Woodsboro

To the residents of Woodsboro.

As you may have heard or read in this newspaper, the Town Of-fice for the Town of Woodsboro has moved. After over 20 years at our location at the Woodsboro Fire Company facility on 3rd St. the WVFC has asked us to vacate our current space, effective Octo-ber 1, 2018.

We have relocated the town of-fice to the grounds of the Woods-boro treatment plant located at the far end of Council Dr., across from the entrance to Woodsboro Re-gional Park. While the location has changed, the Phone number is un-changed: 301-898-3800; and, the mailing address is unchanged: P.O.

Box 88 Woodsboro, MD 21798. Office hours remain the same.

The mail drop at the old town office is no longer functional. Do not attempt to make water and sewer payments at the old town of-fice. We will have a new mail drop box in place at the entrance gate of the office/treatment plant complex for off hours deposits in Novem-ber. In the meantime, we recom-mend mailing your current water and sewer payment or dropping it off during normal business hours.

Town meetings will now be held in the fellowship room of St. Johns Church, 8 N. 2nd St. You can access the room on the right side of the church from 2nd St or from the rear

parking lot off of 3rd St. Meeting days and times remain unchanged.

The relocation of the Town Of-fice to Council Dr. and new meet-ing location will take some getting used to. While we may encounter a few bumps along the way, we are as committed as ever to serve the residents of the town of Woods-boro. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to con-tact the town office or myself. Thank you in advance for your understanding during our transi-tion.

Bill RittelmeyerBurgess, Woodsboro, M

A note from County Council At-Large candidate Danny Farrar

Hogan. First, the IAFF Local 3666 endorsement of his reelec-tion bid and then his endorse-ment of Kathy Afzali for Freder-ick County Executive along with the rest of us on Team Hogan for County Council.

I have listened to him speak several times now, and each time I walk away learning something new or having a different perspec-tive. Last night was no different.

As he was introduced as a “Re-ally nice guy” and the “Most pop-ular Governor in America” he said something that made me rethink the way I looked at polling.

“It’s not a popularity contest. It’s a job approval rating.” That struck such a powerful chord with me be-cause far too often we allow poli-tics to get turned into a who we do or don’t “like.” While the fact that he is a “nice guy” is an awesome perk, what matters is Maryland went from 49th in 2013, with no growth in the economy to rank-ing as the number 2 state for op-portunity!!! That is indeed change we can all get behind regardless of party affiliation.

I think a lifetime of small busi-ness ownership plays a huge role in that. To be successful in that

arena, you must be able to build teams from diverse backgrounds, make the most of your dollars, and plan for the future.

Here in Frederick, we have a chance to elect an entire govern-ing body that has a direct tie to small business ownership in some way, past or current owner or their spouse owns one. We have the ex-perience and the proven leader-ship to step up to the plate to serve you. I hope that you will take the time to get to know us, and on November 6th you chose to vote #TeamHogan all the way down the ballot.

A note from Nate Wilson – Chief Judge of the Orphans’ Court

In 2017, I was honored to be appointed as one of three Fred-erick County Judges of the Or-phans’ Court by Governor Lar-ry Hogan and was designated as Chief in March of this year. The Orphans’ Court is Maryland’s pro-bate court. In other-words a court that handles the estates of the de-ceased or by definition, a court for the bereaved.

Of the many things I have learned from life and especially from the bench is that grief has no mercy. One of my mentors Kirby Maybush once asked in his self-defense class, “What is the worst thing that could happen to you?” Most would reply, you may die; but, his response would always be, the loss of a loved one. This put into perspective that most of life’s problems are not going to be the worst possible scenario. How-ever, death and the ensuing grief remains. We have very little con-trol over death, but the power to make everlasting decisions, now, that will affect our loved ones in-definitely. This means making our final wishes known and put-ting them to paper appropriate-ly, thereby limiting the need for

someone else’s interpretation and court intervention.

I currently reside in Jefferson with my wife and daughter. My family has strong ties to Freder-ick County Maryland going back to the mid 1700s. My 5th great-grandfather, Peter Mantz was al-so a Judge of the Orphans’ Court for Frederick County, amongst his other accomplishments. He was also brother-in-law to a great-aunt of mine Barbara Fritchie.

After receiving a bachelor’s de-gree in management from Hood College in 2005, I have served as a supervisor for judicial secu-rity in local government for the past 11 years. I have been a mem-ber of New Market District Vol-unteer Fire Company for 17 years and formerly served as secretary and vice president. I also own two small businesses and assist with operations at my family’s farm, New Market Plains Vineyards. I have formerly served as secretary and public relations subcommit-tee chair for the Frederick Coun-ty Republican Central Committee and I am a member of the Hood College Alumni Executive Board.

My first introduction to the Or-phans’ Court was when my fam-ily’s farm was involved in an eight-year probate process a few years back; this left a deep impact on me. The future of our “bicenten-nial” farm was at stake and this left the question of whether it would be sustainable for future genera-tions of our family. The process was also detrimental to agricultur-al operations. The serious impacts on families and loved ones after death are not lost on me and this understanding only adds to my desire to continue serving in this capacity.

I humbly ask to be one of your three candidates for Judge of the Orphans’ Court. As the only in-cumbent candidate I have the ex-perience and understand the stress involved in making life changing decisions. I stand ready to contin-ue to lend an empathetic ear, exact fairness, and execute the necessary decisions by fairly applying the laws of our great State of Mary-land.

“What’s in your will?”


From the desk of Register of Wills Sharon Keller As your Register of Wills, it has

been my honor to serve all Freder-ick County families. I would like to share my feelings and reflec-tions on my tenure as your Reg-ister. I hope to impart to you the critical nature of this office and ask for your support in this year’s election. The job of Register is a multi-faceted position and one that I view as having diverse dis-tinct responsibilities.

First, management of a state agency and the daily operations of the office, including the usu-al HR requirements of any man-ager. Monthly fiscal reporting to the Comptroller of Maryland. Accountability to other agencies within the Department of Budget and Management. An active role in the Maryland Register of Wills Association. Modernization of the office, new technology and auto-mation have been an important part of my past term As we have made many upgrades in the office we have not sacrificed any part of our human touch; always mindful of the delicate nature of our work. And in making changes, always asking, “is this good for families and practitioners? “

Second, providing families with an office that is professional, ef-

ficient and compassionate when losing a loved one. I have diligent-ly worked to build an office that can provide answers and assistance when you need it most. Excellent public service has always been my number one priority. From the first person you interact with when you contact our office, and throughout the entire administration process, your family should feel confident that we are here to assist you in a knowledgeable and respectful way. Your Register should never be just a figurehead that relies on staff to make the hard decisions. A quali-fied Register sets the tone, makes the tough calls and sets policy that determines the quality of service for families. By building strong relationships with attorneys and business leaders, a Register is more equipped to point families in the right direction. While we are not permitted to give legal advice, you can trust we know the law and how to competently assist you.

Third, having a passion for ser-vice. Experience has taught me that, although death touches us all, each of us are affected in ways that are unexpectedly different. Having personally experienced the deaths of close family members, I under-stand how each of us grieve in our

own way and search for ways to cope with the loss. Compassion is critical when working with loved ones of a decedent. However, com-passion alone, without experience and knowledge, does not provide value to the citizens of Frederick County. Folks need answers, they want direction. The last thing they need is a complicated legal process without the help and guidance necessary to navigate the probate process. During times of legal un-certainty, a Register must have the ability to blend compassion and integrity with the necessary expe-rience to guide families through the administration process.

Service should not stop at an elected officials door and nor should it be only on election years. Reaching into the community and embracing a spirit of charity has been a very important part of my life and tenure. In closing, I am proud of my service and accom-plishments as a public servant and your Register.

I stand firm on the belief that “Experience Counts – People Matter”, and humbly ask for your vote on November 6th.

From the desk of Sandra Dalton, Clerk of the Circuit CourtHi, I’m your Clerk of the Circuit

Court, Sandy Dalton. It was 1998 when you first elected me as Clerk. In that term I spoke of Trust, Ex-perience, and Vision. Those are the attributes that qualified me then and continue to qualify me for this position.

There has been continued growth in all areas of the clerk’s of-fice. Growth of the county has a direct impact on the office of the Clerk. As our county grows so does processing of documents, court hearings and accounting process-es. With 38 employees, the office departments include civil, family, criminal, juvenile, child support, land records, business and marriage licenses, civil marriage ceremonies, notary oaths, special commissions, records, jury, court rooms, ac-counting and audit.

In addition to main-stream-ing several of the processes in the Clerk’s office for better efficiency, there are many changes that I am proud to have accomplished.

Two of the latest accomplish-ments have been the roll-out of e-filing for criminal and civil cases, and e-recording for releases and assignments in land records. After extensive training, Maryland Elec-tronic Courts (MDEC), was suc-cessfully deployed in Frederick Co. on October 16, 2017. Civil, Fam-ily and Criminal cases are now e-filed. In addition to the relief of pa-

per mail, e-filing allows documents to be submitted and viewed 24/7 by its registered users, to be viewed by several court users simultane-ously and will stop the need for ad-ditional file storage space. July saw the roll-out of e-recording in Land Records. The first records to be ac-cepted were releases and assign-ments of mortgages. This will be followed by e-recording of deeds and mortgages.

My first landmark improvement to the court was the change of jury service in 2000. The term for jury duty was reduced from one month to one week. It was August of 1997 that I was hired as the jury clerk. In June of 1998, my name was on the ballot to run as clerk. As you know, the rest is history. Anyway, jurors now serve one day or one trial. Ju-rors are selected from a combined and purged list from the Board of Elections and the Motor Vehicle Records. This is a great benefit to the juror, community and employ-ers. A juror can now complete their qualification form on line and have the ability to seek a one time post-ponement via the website. Jurors can now also donate their juror sti-pend to the Generous Juror Pro-gram. This is a supplemental fund that is used directly for the chil-dren, for after school activities, tu-toring or school supplies. Coming this year, a juror will have the op-portunity to “opt-in” for text mes-

sages concerning their jury service. The jury video can also be viewed on MDCOURTS.gov.

Technology enhancements have been on-going since 1998 for every department in the office. Subdivi-sion plats are available on the in-ternet. Through MDLANDREC.net, various land record documents for all counties are also available through the internet. Criminal and Civil Case information and forms are now available through the Judi-ciary’s website, and can be found at www.mdcourts.gov.

Some FY18 stats for the clerk’s office are; Cases filed in Civil were 1837, Civil Family – 2384, Crimi-nal – 1312, Land record documents recorded – 36,792 , Marriage Li-censes issued – 2259, Marriage Civ-il Ceremonies performed – 802. Land Record Cashier Collections – 14,908,824.95, Business License Cashier Collections – 491,529.75. Total revenues were approximately 17 million dollars.

It seems like every citizen has their name on one or more docu-ments recorded in the clerk’s of-fice. There is a lot of diversity in the work that flows through the Clerk’s Office. My office contin-ues to use the proper and approved methods for the handling of mon-ies and of the communities docu-ments. We have had several excel-lent (“no findings”) Legislative and Judicial Audits.

Passionate about my job and committed to the citizens we serve, I will continue to work with the Administrative Office of Courts to see the Clerk’s Office imple-ment proven smart technology that enhances the public’s interac-

tion with the office, and continue to look for and offer improved cus-tomer service.

With a staff of 38, I offer them great praise. They have embraced and initiated changes within the of-fice, and with the required process-es, all the while continuing to give excellent customer service. They un-derstand the sensitivity of their du-ties, the necessity of timeliness and the importance of perfection. Their positive energy, camaraderie and at-tention to responsibilities makes each day a refreshing work day!

Being active and involved in the enhancements and technol-ogy of the Clerk’s office is impor-tant. It has meant serving as Presi-dent for the Circuit Court Clerk’s Association,Vice President and President of the Conference of Circuit Court Clerks, Clerk Rep-resentative on the Justice Matters Editorial Board and Conference of Circuit Court Judges; a mem-ber of the Computer Access, Court Reporter’s, and Access to Justice Committees; testifying before Leg-islature for various court related Bills, and being a speaker at court training classes. It has been a great honor to serve for 15 plus years as the Chair of the Maryland Jury Commissioners and Jury Clerks.

Another privilege was to grad-uate from the Institute for Court Management’s Certified Court Manager program, Michigan State University’s Court Management program, and Leadership Frederick County Class of 2002.

Chuck and I live Walkersville. Our three children are grown with careers and families. In addition to professional committees, I am

a member of the Woman’s Giving Circle, Frederick Woman’s Civ-ic Club, former member of Fred-erick Business and Professional Women, member of various Re-publican Clubs. She is a Red Cross blood & pheresis donor, a member of St. Timothy’s Roman Catholic Church in Walkersville, and sup-ports many other non-profit orga-nizations. It’s a joy to be active in community service and speaking to groups and students about her po-sition and the work of the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Especially en-joyable is the yearly reading of the Court Minutes from 1765 of the Repudiation Act to the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and being part of the 250th Anniversary re-enactment at City Hall. In addition and in cos-tume, a few members of DAR and I were invited to share this piece of History at this year’s Middle School History Day, Brunswick Middle School and Middletown Elementary School. The students were a great audience!

Whether serving the public, the Judges, our business partners, or working with a hardworking, dedi-cated staff, the position of clerk is one that offers new challenges, op-portunities and satisfaction daily. My passion is to create an environ-ment that makes employees proud of the job they do and where the citizens know they are always wel-come. She says, “Everything we do, we do to serve you in a timely, ef-ficient manner, while keeping a smile on the courthouse!”

Sincere Thanks to the You, the Voter for your trust.

I humbly ask you to please - Vote for me – Sandra D

Thank you and God Bless!

GOVERNMENT


This and that

Bearing witness

Mary T. Klotz

Remember bench seats in cars? In high school, there was a guy who, whenever he was driv-ing with a young woman in the front seat, would make his right turns deliberately tight, acceler-ating. The passenger would slide left, snugly next to him. I found it amusing and smile at that memo-ry. But how we interpret what we see and experience is affected by our own filters. Another passenger may have found it manipulative or felt threatened.

Bearing witness goes beyond being physically present at a par-ticular time and place. In bear-ing witness, we become keepers of memories. We make possible validation, exoneration, and shar-ing of experiences. Biblically, bear-ing witness means verifying that you have personal knowledge and will attest to and verify it. Legal-ly, bearing witness means that you give evidence, presenting what you know. Bearing witness involves at-tention, internalization, and revis-iting the recollection. It involves responsibility.

Have you ever asked, “Did you just see that?” There is validation in knowing that someone else saw what you saw. Comparing notes is an opportunity to check how you interpreted it. Witnesses to the same occurrence may find that they come away with different suppositions of what happened.

Another high school friend mused suggestively, full of innu-endo, “We could take our clothes off and see what happens.” A sim-ple grin, along with, “Ain’t gonna happen, dude,” was sufficient re-sponse. Years later, he remarked that I’d have been disappointed if he hadn’t at least teasingly made

those repeated propositions. True. I am puzzled at some of the seem-ingly benign “me too” stories in which a similar simple explorato-ry remark is taken as threatening or offensive. How do people hook up now if we are afraid that a pro-posal of intimacy will be taken as a threat, or that someone unwilling may not say no?

Yet we see repeatedly that a number of women have found themselves unable to say no in a crucial moment and unable to bear witness to what resulted, of-ten for years. Sometimes, they were in situations where they were clearly at risk had they refused, but sometimes not. Sometimes they put themselves at risk. Even when that is the case, the assault is no less wrong; the perpetrator is no less guilty. Nobody ever “deserves” being violated.

Sharing their stories is heal-ing, and that is part of the bene-fit of bearing witness. Another is that we can learn from one anoth-er’s experiences. We can rally sup-port. We can prepare ourselves, learning from those who bear wit-ness, to recognize and avoid high risk situations and be ready to say NO with confidence, sooner rath-er than later. We can confront and expose predators, and again, soon-er is better than later.

It is useful to document some-thing accurately with written notes as soon as possible after the event. Distinguish between fact and feeling. What it felt like is valid and important, but exactly what was observable, in sequence, is key. This is true whether you are making a complaint about a product or service, witnessing an incident, or charting the unfold-ing of a relationship. Moviemak-ers use the difference between what you see (or thought you saw) and what, exactly, actually happened to create expectation, suspense and surprise: the twist is almost always something you saw

that led to incorrect expectations or misinterpretation.

Beyond shifts in memories due to interpretations, memories can evolve that are false. They feel the same as valid memories of things that actually happened, but a false memory is perhaps a variant or ex-trapolation of a sliver of experi-ence, or serves as a coping mech-anism.

True witnessing is more than simply watching. Forensic nursing is a specialty requiring advanced training so that nurses working with assault victims and investiga-tors can bear witness to important details. There are risks to bearing witness; there is a Federal Wit-ness Protection Program. In bear-ing witness, one may have to relive unthinkably traumatic memories.

I stayed up late on September 11 this year, as every year, watch-ing the videos and testimonies of those who were there: witnessing the witnesses.

Once I watched a small, cry-ing child being dragged by one arm. Whatever the situation was, the adult just wanted to move on, and the kid didn’t, or wouldn’t, or couldn’t. You can really injure a kid by pulling up on their arm like that. The adult actually lift-ed the kid off the ground by that one little arm. Other people were around who could have stepped in. But no-one did. So I called out, “You can dislocate an elbow doing that.” The adult paused and then continued, moving more slowly, holding the child’s hand, not tug-ging. If the tugging had continued, I’d have called security. I chose to insert myself on the child’s behalf and to call others to bear witness with me.

There will be times when you are a witness, possibly the only witness. May you rise well to the task.

Sometimes you will need to say no. Say it.

COMMENTARY

The family room

An uncertain world

Chandra Bolton

In this chaotic world, people have a longing for certainty. Some seek answers in science. Things are true if they can be tested and proven. Some seek answers in politics and political leaders. Leg-islation promises to fix our prob-lems. Some seek answers in phi-losophy. What is truth? What is good? Some seek answers in peo-ple. Find a person who can ex-press your beliefs, your goals, your dreams, and follow them. Some seek answers in themselves. I decide what is “true for me.” We want to pick something that will be an infallible guide so that we can have certainty, stability, a firm and unshakeable place to stand.

Some seek answers in religion. While God is perfect, interpret-ing His message is usually left to us, the imperfect humans. We of-

ten choose to listen to those re-ligious leaders who agree with us, allowing us to remain in our comfort zone. Things are equal-ly murky in our prayers. When things fail to happen the way that we wish, does it mean that God said no? Or perhaps it means not now? Or perhaps it means try a different way? My daughter says that God answers four ways: yes, no, not now, and grow up! Still, only ‘yes’ seems to be obvious. Hoping for a clear sign, that piece of paper with the answer written in big, bold letters never floats down from on high.

We long to serve the truth, the highest good. We want to “make a difference” by “doing what is right.”

In all of this we have to ac-cept that people are not infallible. They make mistakes, lack com-plete knowledge, ignore those who disagree with them, lie to themselves to avoid unpleasant truths, and occasionally, deliber-ately do evil out of anger, a desire for revenge, to prove that they are

powerful, or to satisfy any other of the seven deadly sins.

In our desire to do good, we cannot avoid responsibility for the unintended consequences of our own actions by blaming our lead-ers, our friends, the book we read, the devil (remember Flip Wil-son?), or God.

The human tendency to give God-like attributes to people and things that are not God lies at the root of much evil in our world. In our desire to avoid having to take action, to think the unthinkable, we ignore the signs of weakness, of failure, and of evil that we see in others. We paint people as perfect-ly good or perfectly evil, refusing to accept that all humans have the capacity for both.

And so we come to the current scandal in my church, the Catho-lic Church. How could this possi-bly come about? How could peo-ple who are supposed to be giving their lives to the service of others commit such horribly evil acts? One of the now deposed bishops raised millions of dollars to feed

and educate the poor, shelter the homeless, and advocate for refu-gees. Yet this same man abused the young men in his care, the young men for whom he was a mentor, a spiritual father, and an example of the priesthood.

I respect the institution of the priesthood, just as I respect any-one who sacrifices to serve the greater good of humanity. Priests sacrifice having a family. They generally move every 5-6 years. Like teachers, police officers, fire-fighters, other emergency person-nel, and our troops, priests sacri-fice financially to do what they feel called to do. Like the French priest martyred by terrorists at the altar 2 years ago, or those killed on the battlefield accompanying the troops, some give their lives in service. Both the troops and the priests volunteer for their jobs because the cause is important enough to give their lives.

I know many good priests. I have been instructed by their in-sight into people, comforted by their compassion, warmed by their

friendship, and inspired by their wisdom. I have seen their struggle to reach those alienated from God by their own experiences. And I have watched the lengths they go to help those in need. Through fa-tigue and pain, well past the age when most of us retire, they con-tinue to struggle to bring the Good News to those they serve.

The danger lies in allowing re-spect for the role to become vener-ation of the man. A priest, bishop, or pope is not God, and treating them as though they were God tends to encourage corruption. Bishops, including the Bishop of Rome, are responsible to God for the souls of their flock. This is sometimes seen as power over peo-ple and money, instead of service to those in need. The mantra that we all learned after 9/11, “If you see something, say something,” must become part of the church culture, too. Those who did see something must come forward to help clean up the mess.


LIBRARY

A PAge from WAlkersville librAry2 South Glade Road, Walkersville, MD (301) 301-600-8200

There’s always something new to read, learn, or do at the Walkersville Branch Public Library. This month’s article highlights a few upcoming programs to help you plan your visits. For a complete listing of Frederick County Public Library’s programs, activities, and special events, please visit fcpl.org.

FCPL is pleased to continue its participation in One Mary-land One Book in 2018. This pro-gram strives to unite Marylanders through the shared experience of

reading the same book. This year’s One Maryland One Book selec-tion is Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Ex-onerated by DNA Evidence by Tim Junkin.

Bloodsworth is a gripping work of non-fiction that explores a his-torical milestone in Maryland’s criminal justice system. Main character Kirk Bloodsworth learns of a new technology, DNA finger-printing, and realizes it’s his last chance to prove his innocence. This page-turner explores the crime Bloodsworth is accused of committing, the investigation and trial that led to his conviction, as well as his exoneration due to DNA testing and DNA evidence.

The theme of justice will be highlighted in the following pro-

grams at the Walkersville Branch Library:Justice League Storytime for ages 0-5, Wednesdays, October 10 and 24 at 10:05 a.m.Adult Group Book Discussion, Thursday, October 4 at 6:30 p.m.Sisters in Crime Author Panel: Authors of the Chesapeake Chap-ter of Sisters in Crime will discuss why they write mysteries and how the framework of crime fiction conveys the concept of justice. For adults, Thursday, October 18 at 6:30 p.m.

For a complete schedule of One Maryland One Book programs, visit fcpl.org/omob.

Programs for Children

Hometown Heroes (Ages 3-6)Whether at a special destination

or the library, explore the people and places that make Frederick County great. Mondays at 1 p.m. Oct. 1: Meet a Trooper; October 15: Explore a Grocery Store; Oc-tober 22: See a Delivery Truck; October 29: Visit a Pizza Place; November 5: Meet a Park Rang-er; November 19: Explore the Air-port (at 12 p.m.).

Nature Sprouts (Ages 3-6)Come explore the natural world

through stories and fun activities. October 4, 11, 18, and 25 at 1:00 p.m.

Homeschool4-H Presents STEM

Explore a new STEM concept each week. Presented by Frederick County 4-H program staff. Fri-days, October 5, 12, 19, and 26 at 1:00 p.m.

Trunk or TreatHalloween fun for all ages!

Community partners with treats, family games, and a costume con-test. Sponsored by Friends of the Walkersville Library. Wednesday, October 31, from 6-7:30 p.m.

Programs for TeensAutumn Decoration Making with Abloom (Teens and Adults)

Wednesday, October 3, at 5:30 p.m. Registration is required.

HomeschoolArt Appreciation (Grades 6-9)

Delve into art history, tech-niques and more. October 5 and 12 at 2:00 p.m.Stop Motion Animation (Grades 6-12)

A three-part series explor-ing stop motion animation with iPads. Registration is required. Tuesdays, October 9, 16, and 23 at 3:30 p.m.Teen Gaming Club (Grades 6-12)

Play video games, board games, and table top games while hang-ing out with your friends. Thurs-day, October 18 at 3:30 p.m.

Adult Programs

Sign of Our TimesAn introduction to American

Sign Language with verbal and non-verbal class participation. This course is presented at no charge courtesy of an FCPL part-

nership with Frederick Commu-nity College’s Institute for Learn-ing in Retirement. The course is funded by the Shirley Cruick-shank Wolfe Fund which provides program support to the ILR Pro-gram at FCC. Fridays, October 5, 19, and 26 at 3:00 p.m.

Bullying in our CommunityA panel of experts from the

Frederick County United in Kindness Coalition to Stop Bully-ing will discuss bullying issues in our community. Thursday, Octo-ber 11 at 6:00 p.m.

Fall into WellnessEmbrace healthy living using

essential oils and other natural al-ternatives to improve your family lifestyle. Registration is required. Wednesday, October 24 at 11:30 a.m.

Spirits and Ghosts, Oh My!Discuss the ghosts among us

during this spooky time of year with spirit-centered entrepreneur and sacred healer, Callie Clare. Wednesday, October 24 at 6:30 p.m.

Nature Sprouts Programs at the Wakersville Library are for children ages 3-6.


ARTS

Kevin Cole performs in the MET’s Hand to God, photo by Joe Williams

Tom Huenger and Lia Seltzer in the MET’s Hand to God, photo by Joe Williams

MET season opens with Hand to God

The Maryland Ensemble The-ater’s description and warnings of the play Hand to God had me prepared for a decadent attack on Christianity. The MET website description included: “Hand to God explores the startlingly fragile nature of faith, morality, and the ties that bind. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY!”

The play did take a few pokes at the basis for Christian belief, mostly in brief monologues at the opening and closing of the play. However, the bulk of the play real-ly focused on the internal struggles of the characters.

The show starts with a mother who recently lost her husband, the father of her teenage son. She has dived into religious life and runs a religious puppet class for teenag-ers. We find her son has made a disturbing connection to his hand puppet, wearing it constantly and talking with it. He uses the puppet to say and do dark and dangerous things such as expressing his car-nal desires for a young love inter-est and challenging a bully.

The puppet-obsessed son was played by Kevin Cole. The part required Mr. Cole to carry on ex-tensive dialogues between his pup-pet and himself. He brilliantly managed the puppet and the voice changes required to shift back and forth between the characters. He played his role incredibly convinc-ingly.

The boy’s mother, played by Lia Seltzer, had her own demons. Her deep dive into Christianity after her husband’s death has not paid off, and now she has to deal with the temptations of a passionate teen’s sexual advances (well played by Steve Custer).

The son’s teen love interest is excellently portrayed by Lauren Johnson. Lauren also got into the puppeteering action in a puppet sex scene with the son’s puppet. The scene was a bit disturbing but mostly hilarious. I’ll never look at the Muppets in the same way!

Finally, Thom Huenger played a lonely pastor. Thom convincingly portrayed the pastor as a dedicated “man-of-God” who struggles with serving his people while struggling

with his own desires for compan-ionship.

I would like to compliment the stage management and light-ing crew of David Allerton, Spen-cer Baron, and Doug Grove. The intimate box theater format has very limited stage space with the small audience sometimes inch-es from the action. For example, once, when the mother (Lia Selt-zer) screamed, it actually hurt my ear and there is no amplification! The creative and ingenious scene mechanisms using minimal stage decorations are a creative art in their own way.

Unfortunately, by the time you read this, Hand to God will be over, and the MET will be moving on to their next main stage event, Let The Right One In, starting Oc-tober 19. Over the years of review-ing MET performances, I have developed great confidence in the judgment of Artistic Director Tad Janes and his cohorts to choose and produce excellent plays that will all but guarantee a very special visit to downtown Frederick.


SCHOOLS

The WHS Mascot leads the student section in the school bus cheer. Photo Duncan Slade

Isaiah Daniel leaps over a Jaguar defender on the way to a second-quarter touchdown during the 46-0 Walkersville High School victory over the New Era Academy. Photo Duncan Slade


COMMUNITY

Can you count on a bountiful investment “harvest”?We’re officially in autumn – the

season when we bring in what we planted in the spring. But the con-cept of planting and gathering isn’t confined to agriculture. In fact, it can be used in many walks of life, including investing. So what can you do to help work toward a suc-cessful investment “harvest”?

Here is (not quite) a bushel of ideas:

Plant the right “seeds.” When farmers plant specific crops, they know about what to expect – how long it will take for them to grow, how much yield they’ll produce, and so on. When you invest, you too need to plant “seeds” by choos-ing investments that are designed to help meet your goals. For exam-ple, to accumulate enough money for a comfortable retirement, you will probably need to own a rea-sonable percentage of growth-ori-ented vehicles, such as stocks – you generally can’t expect the type of growth you need by investing solely in fixed-income investments, such as bonds and certificates of deposit.

Nurture your “crops.” Agricul-tural workers are diligent about cul-tivating their crops through prop-er irrigation, fertilization and weed control. And if you want to keep your investment portfolio healthy, you also must find ways to nurture it. First of all, you will need to keep adding new dollars regularly, be-

cause the larger your overall invest-ment base, the more you can ex-pand its growth potential. But you might also need to do some “weed-ing” of your own, because over the years, you may have purchased some investments that, for one rea-son or another, are now no longer suitable for your needs. If that’s the case, you might be better off by sell-ing these investments and using the proceeds for new ones that could fill gaps in your portfolio.

Diversify. Farmers may plant a mix of crops: corn, soybeans, flax, legumes, fruits, and so on. Conse-quently, if one crop fails, it won’t sink the farmer’s entire business. As an investor, you, too, need to diver-sify, because if you only own one type of asset class, and a financial downturn hits that asset, your port-folio can take a big hit. But spread-ing your dollars among stocks, bonds, cash and other invest-ments can help reduce the impact of market volatility on your hold-ings. (However, diversification can’t guarantee profits or protect against all losses.)

Thus far, we’ve looked at ideas on how you can create a healthy in-vestment crop. But once it’s time to actually start harvesting your port-folio – that is, once you begin liq-uidating parts of it to support your-self during your retirement years – you also need to act carefully.

Specifically, you need to establish a withdrawal rate that’s appropriate for your situation, based on your age, lifestyle, income sources and other factors. You could be retired for two or three decades, so it’s es-sential you don’t withdraw so much during your early years of retire-

ment that you risk outliving your money. A financial professional can help you determine the rate that’s right for you.

The agricultural harvest season only lasts a few weeks. But doing a good job of growing and managing

your investment crop can help you reap the rewards far into the future.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by Laura Beall your lo-cal Edward Jones Financial Advisor.


Pictured L. to R. 1st. Vice President Jim Corley, Tara Franklin, Past District Governor Susan Bonura and Dave Schrodel Tara’s sponsor.

COMMUNITY

6Walkersville Town Commissioner Gary Baker participated in enshrining some of the crash debris

Glade Valley Lions Club Inducts newest memberRecently Tara Franklin became

the newest member to the Glade Valley Lions Club. She is the 6th. person to join the G.V.L.C. this

year. Tara lives in Walkersville with her husband and 3 children. This Thursday, October 4th,, will be “Friendship Night”. Anyone inter-

ested in attending the 6:15 meet-ing at the Woodsboro Fire contact Dave Schrodel phone 301-845-8466.

Glade Valley Lions Club yard sale

The Glade Valley Lions Club will be hosting a yard sale from 7:00 AM until 3:00 PM on Octo-ber 20 as part of the annual Wood-sboro Days Celebration. The yard sale will be set up on the south end of Woodsboro and the loca-tion will be easily accessible from Main Street. The yard sale features thousands of items priced to sell contributed by persons who are downsizing or moved from the

area. All proceeds will benefit the Lions’ community service activi-ties. Items for sale include: hun-dreds of hard copy (some signed) and paperback books of historical significance documenting the Civ-il War period; dozens upon doz-ens of new costume jewelry items (in original boxes); sundry kitchen dishes, pots, pans, glassware, and utensils; a framed photograph of Yogi Berra signed by the Hall of

Famer (signature authenticated); several beer steins handcrafted in Germany; assorted linens; knick knacks too numerous to mention; tools; a power washer; and more. For early arrivals we will have cof-fee and cinnamon buns and pot pies from Trout’s Grocery Store for sale. For more information con-tact Dave Schrodel at (301) 845-8466 or Dick Lyman at (301) 845-4174.


COMMUNITY

Sixth Annual

Woodsboro 5K Run

October 20th, 2018 Hosted by the Woodsboro Historical Society

Join the fun as we hold the 6th annual Woodsboro 5K Run as the kick-off event for

“Woodsboro Days”. 2018 will see the race once again held in the Woodsboro Regional

Park. The course will include a mix of paved and woods trails that include a challeng-

ing hill. Stay in town after the race to enjoy food and fun at local churches and non-

profits. Yard Sales and Flea Markets will be set up around town for the entire weekend.

The Race will begin and end at the Woodsboro Regional Park at the intersection of Woodsboro Road and Council Drive.

- The race will begin at 9:00 am, race day registration from 7:30 to 8:30.- Advanced online entry fee of $25.00 prior to October 20th

- Register: www.active.com search: Woodsboro 5Kwww.active.com/woodsboro-md/running/woodsboro-days-5k-run-walk-2018

or: www.woodsborohistoricalsociety.org - Race day registration $30.00, Race Tee shirt for all participants

- Awards for top 3 female-male runners overall and an under 15 category.- Door Prizes and sponsor Gifts

Proceeds from the race will benefit the Woodsboro Historical Society to continue restoration work at the Woodsboro Train Station as well as fund history related programs about the Town of Woodsboro

and the surrounding area. For information call 301-676-5312 or visit http://www.woodsborohistoricalsociety.org

https://www.facebook.com/WoodsboroHistoricalSocietyInc

Finding WoodsboroOctober 20, 2018 • www.FindingWoodsboro.com


COMMUNITY

Glade Valley Holiday Toy Shoppe Glade Valley Community Ser-

vices Holiday Toy Shoppe is gear-ing up again this year to help pro-vide a wonderful Holiday season to the children in need in our community. Last year the Holiday Toy Shoppe provided new clothes, toys, and books to 155 children, gift cards and books to 88 teens and overall helped 76 families. This program is supported by the generosity of the churches, schools, businesses and individu-als in our community. Almost all of the gifts the children and teens receive and the door prizes the parents receive are donated. The

families do go through a screening process to ensure the help is real-ly provided for those that need it and that they are in the Walkers-ville Feeder School District.

In October we will be accept-ing applications from the families at Walkersville Town Hall (2nd floor) on the following dates:October 3rd from 10am – 3pmOctober 12th from 10am – 4pm October 16th from 3pm-8pmOctober 24th from 2pm – 6pmOctober 30th from 4pm-6pm*there are qualifications and docu-ments that are needed at the time of sign ups.

During November we provide all our donors with information regarding what specific items are needed for these children. All the donations will be dropped off at Walkersville Town Hall on Sun-day, December 2nd with the fami-lies coming to Town Hall on De-cember 5th to collect their gifts. Many volunteers work hard to make this program such a success. If you have more question please call 301-845-0213 and leave us a message on the Glade Valley Community Services line.

Mother Seton School Calendar of Events

October 2018October 4 – Blessing of the An-

imals. October 4th, 1:30 p.m., at Mother Seton School, 100 Cream-ery Rd, Emmitsburg, MD 21727. In honor of St. Francis and his love for animals, we invite you to bring your furry, feathery, scaly, and stuffed friends to be blessed. The ceremony will begin with a brief opening prayer followed by the blessing. All creatures great and small welcome! October 5 – 11th Annual “Angels Above” Alumni Golf Tournament. October 5th, starting at 11:30 a.m. at Mountain View Golf Club, 4099 Bullfrog Rd., Fairfield, PA 17320. Whether you’re an avid golfer or like to play

just for fun, come out and sup-port the annual golf tournament to benefit the Jack and Shirley Little Scholarship Fund for Mother Se-ton School. Practice your drives starting at 11:30 a.m., followed by a light lunch at noon, before Tee Time at 1:00 p.m. $90/person or $360/foursome. Ticket includes lunch, greens fees, cart fee, and din-ner. To register for the event, con-tact Tony Little at [email protected] or register online at bit.ly/AA18REG. For more informa-tion, visit our website at bit.ly/An-gelsAbove.

October 9 – Mother Seton School Take-a-Tour Tuesday. Oc-tober 9th, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

at 100 Creamery Rd., Emmits-burg, MD 21727. Small class sizes, hands-on experience, and a beauti-ful natural setting are part of what makes Mother Seton School a pre-miere choice for your child’s edu-cation. A truly welcoming commu-nity, combined with challenging academics and solid values, help your child grow strong and true. Come see why our graduates are recognized as hard-working and innovative individuals of charac-ter. Drop by anytime during one of our monthly Take-a-Tour Open Houses or schedule your own pri-vate tour by contacting Laurie at [email protected] or 301-477-3162.

October 11 – Mother Seton School Fall Fun Pre-K Program. October 11th, 9:45-11:00 a.m. Free, ages 2-5. Join us for a morn-ing of fun activities and colorful crafts at our school. Contact Laurie at [email protected] or 301-447-3162 to RSVP.

October 15 – Mother Seton School World Peace Day Mass. October 15th, 10:15 a.m. Join us in prayer and worship as we cele-brate World Peace Day. October 22 – Mother Seton School HSA Spa-ghetti Dinner. October 22nd, 5:00 – 7:30 p.m., at Rocky’s Pizza in Thurmont (Food Lion Plaza). $10/ages 12+; $7/ages 5-11; 4 and un-der FREE. Includes unlimited spa-ghetti, salad, and drinks. Contact Lisa Lowry at 301.447.2171 or [email protected] for tickets.

Visit www.mothersetonschool.org for more information about upcoming events.

Bingo

A Cash Bingo will be held Sat-urday, October 20 at the Lewis-town Fire Hall,

11101 Hessong Bridge Road, Thurmont, MD. The doors open at 4:30 pm; bingo starts at 6:00 pm with King Tut, raffles and spe-cial games. Tickets are $20 in ad-vance and $25 at the door. Food and bake table will be available. Proceeds to benefit Faith UCC. For tickets or information call 301-788-2427 or 301-271-7573.


CHAMBERS BOOK OF DAYS 1864

The story of Major Andre

John Andre, hanged by Wash-ington as a spy, October 2, 1780.

There are few monuments in Westminster Abbey which have attracted more attention than that which commemorates the sad fate of Major Andre. Perhaps no event of the American revolution made more aching hearts on both sides of the Atlantic. Great Britain lost two armies, and thousands of her brave soldiers were slain upon the field of battle, but it may he doubt-ed if so many tears were shed for them all, as for this young soldier, who died upon the gallows.

John Andre was born in Lon-don, the son of a Genevese mer-chant, in 1751. He was sent to Ge-neva to be educated, but returned to London at the age of eighteen, and, his talents having introduced him to a literary coterie, he be-came enamored of Miss Honora Sneyd, a young lady of singular beauty and accomplishments. As both were very young, the mar-riage was postponed, and Andre was induced to engage in trade; but he was ambitious, and, at the age of twenty, entered the army. At the outbreak of the American war he was sent to Canada, and taken prisoner at St. John’s; but being

exchanged, he became the favou-rite of that gay and gallant officer, General Sir Henry Clinton, who appointed him his aid-de-camp, and soon after adjutant-general.

Young, handsome, clever, full of taste and gaiety, an artist and a po-et, he was the life of the army, and the little vice-regal court that was assembled around its chief. The British occupied the American cit-ies, and while the troops of Wash-ington were naked and starving at Valley Forge, Sir Henry was hold-ing a series of magnificent revels in Philadelphia, which were planned and presided over by the gallant Major Andre.

Philadelphia was evacuated; Sir Henry returned to New York; and Major Andre, who had known the wife of the American general, Ar-nold, in Philadelphia, entered in-to a correspondence with him, and was the agent through whom the British general bargained, un-der promise of a large reward, for the surrender of Westpoint, the key of the highlands of the river Hud-son. Andre visited Arnold within the American lines, to carry out this treachery; he was captured on his return by three American farm-ers, who refused his bribes; the pa-pers proclaiming Arnold’s treason were found upon him, and, by his own frank confession, he was con-victed as a spy, and sentenced to be hanged.

Arnold, by the blunder of an American officer, got warning, and escaped on board the Vulture. Sir Henry Clinton, by the most urgent representations to General Wash-ington, tried to save his favorite ad-jutant, but in vain. There was but one way—the surrender of Arnold, to meet the fate decreed to An-dre. That was impossible; and the young adjutant, then in his twen-ty-ninth year, after a vain appeal to Washington, that he might die a soldier’s death, was hanged on the west bank of the Hudson, almost in sight of the city held by the British army, October 2nd, 1780. If his life had been undistinguished, he died with heroic firmness. The whole British army went into mourning, and, after the close of the war, his body was deposited near his monu-

ment in Westminster Abbey. Even in America, where the name of Ar-nold is a synonym of treason, the sad fate of Major Andre excited, and still excites, universal commis-eration.

Reaumur and his thermometerRene Antoine de Réaumur, prac-

tical philosopher and naturalist died October 18, 1757.

Rene Antoine Ferchault de Ré-aumur is an instance, among ma-ny, of those persons who, having devoted the greater part of their lives to scientific investigations, be-come known to posterity for only one, and that often a very subordi-nate achievement. Réaumur is now remembered almost exclusively by his thermometer: that is to say, his mode of graduating thermometers a very small thing in itself. Yet in his day he occupied ho mean place among French savans. From 1708, when he read his first paper be-fore the Academy of Sciences, till his death on October 18, 1757, he was incessantly engaged in investi-gations of one kind or other. Geo-metrical speculations; the strength of cordage; the development of the shells of testaceous animals; the co-louring matter of turquoise gem-sthe manufacture of iron, steel, and porcelain artificial incubation; the imitating of the famous purple dye of the ancients; the graduation of thermometers; the reproduction of the claws of lobsters and crabs; the instincts and habits of insects all, in turn, engaged the attention of this acute and industrious man, and all furnished him with means for in-creasing the sum total of human knowledge.

Scientific men, each in his own department, fully appreciate the value of Réaumur’s labours; but to the world at large, as we have said, the thermometric scale is the only thing by which he is remembered. Almost precisely the same may be said of Fahrenheit. Had not the English persisted in using the grad-uation proposed by the last named individual, his name would never have become a ‘household word’ among us; and had hot Réaumur’s scale been extensively adopted on the continent, his more elaborate investigations, buried in learned volumes, would have failed to im-mortalise his name.

Till the early part of the last cen-tury, the scales for measuring de-grees of temperature were so ar-bitrary, that scientific men found it difficult to understand and re-cord each other’s experiments but Fahrenheit, in 1724, had the mer-it of devising a definite standard of comparison. He divided the in-terval between freezing water and boiling water into 180 equal parts or degrees, and placed the for-mer at 32 degrees above the zero or point of intense cold, so that the point of boiling water was de-noted by 212°. It is supposed that the extreme cold observed in Ice-land in 1700 furnished Fahrenheit with the minimum, or zero which he adopted in his thermometers; but such a limit to the degree of cold would he quite inadmissible now, when much lower tempera-tures are known to exist. Réaumur, experimenting in the same field a few years after Fahrenheit, adopt-

ed also the temperature of freez-ing water as his zero, and marked off 80 equal parts or degrees be-tween that point and the temper-ature of boiling water. Celsius, a Swede, invented, about the year 1780, a third mode of graduation, called the Centigrade; in which he took the freezing of water as the ze-ro point, and divided the interval between that and the point of eb-ullition into 100 parts or degrees. All three scales are now employed a circumstance which has proved productive of an infinite amount of confusion and error. Thus, 212° F is equal to 80° R, or 100° C; 60° F is equal to 12° R, or 171/9° and so on. Like the names of the constella-tions, it is difficult to make changes in any received system when it has become once established; and thus we shall continue to hear of Réau-mur on the continent, and of Fahr-enheit in England.

Then came October full of merry glee;For yet his noule was totty of the must,

Which he was treading in the wine-fat’s see,And of the joyous oyle, whose gentle gust

Made him so frolic and so full of Lust:Upon a dreadful Scorpion he did ride,

The same which by Diana’s doom unjust Slew great Orion; and coke by his side

He had his ploughing-share and coulter ready tyde.

Spenser


RELIGION

Ministry tips from the Apostle Paul (Part Two) (II Corinthians 4:1-5)

Last month, we considered some ministry tips from the Apostle Paul. This month we will continue our study of this topic and passage.

3. Paul preached the Gospel plainly, not dishonestly (v.3-4)

The apostle makes an inter-esting statement in this verse, “If our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.” He then goes on to speak of those that have been blinded by Satan so that they would not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. Paul preached a plain Gos-pel. It is found in I Corinthians 15:1-4, where it is defined as the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ for our sins. It is this: nothing more, and nothing less.

Paul states that, if people do not understand or believe, it is not his fault but Satan’s! Paul was called to be a messenger and did a prop-er job getting the message across. We are called to do the same!

We must learn how to preach the Gospel to others, keep it what it is, and not add one ex-tra bit to it! We must learn to ex-plain the blackness of sin and the sureness of Judgment so that the preciousness of Christ’s Death, Burial, and Resurrection may be clearly seen! We must not keep one part out for its sourness or add one more part to it to make it more difficult or sweet! We must simply be the messengers of this great message, praying that God will work on the heart of the sinner unto salvation! Watch your tracts, plans, and messages. Preach the Gospel!

4. Paul sought to glorify Christ, not himself (v.5)

It seems that, whichever book Paul wrote, he made it a point to glorify Christ while debas-ing himself. This is a natural evi-dence of the in-dwelling Spirit of God. There were those that false-ly accused Paul of building his own little “cults” and what-have-you. But, repeatedly, the apostle tells the churches that they know better. His message was one that pointed people to Christ, while his actions did the same. His en-tire life was driven by a desire to know Christ so he could point people to Him!

How needed is such an attitude in our day! All around us are men that deign to be lords over God’s heritage forgetting that they are but sheep themselves! They strive, not for God’s glory, but for their own, seeking higher and high-er numbers in their ministries for pride’s sake! They trust in promo-tions, manipulations, and worldly media to build “their” church, in-stead of preaching and teaching the Word of God faithfully, trusting in God’s ability to build His flock. May God help us in such a day to seek to glorify Christ and Him alone, for He is the only one wor-thy of our adoration, obedience, and praise!

James Bussard is the pastor of Pinecrest Baptist Church in Sig-nal Mountain, TN. For questions or comments about this article, please email him at [email protected], or call 423-495-0202.

Finding WoodsboroOctober 20, 2018 • www.FindingWoodsboro.com


IN THE COUNTRY

Save the planet, kill a tree

Ken Kellar

While researching the heat is-land effect of solar power arrays for the August issue, I stumbled across some inconvenient facts about trees; facts that ecologists and climatologists are reluctant to discuss yet they do grudgingly dis-cuss it in their papers. Trees warm the planet, and that is important because global tree coverage has increased by 7 percent in the last 35 years. Yes, increased. That is over 860,000 square miles of in-creased forestation. That is an area larger than all of the United States east of the Mississippi.

As you fly over various terrains, you’ll notice some surfaces are bright while others are dark. While your eyes are not calibrated scien-tific instruments, they are reason-ably good at judging the amounts of solar energy a surface reflects, this is called albedo. A black pond absorbs almost all sunlight, warm-ing the pond. A bright amber field of wheat reflects a lot of light. A dark stand of trees absorbs a lot. A snow-covered field reflects a lot. Let’s look at the scientific numbers and see how they compare to our visual impressions.

The table and graphic show al-bedo for some surfaces of interest. Albedo is the measure of solar en-ergy reflected from a surface. It ac-counts for the entire energy spec-trum, even light we cannot see. Low albedo surfaces will warm up more than high albedo surfac-es because they absorb more sun-light.

You will see the lowest albedo is fresh asphalt and the highest is fresh snow. Look at the things that reflect more solar energy than trees (that is things that keep the planet cooler than trees): bare soil, crops, green grass, desert, and even worn asphalt.

New England is hotter today because most of the colonial era farmland has been forested. Why hotter? A farm field has higher al-bedo than a forest.

Compare a farm field in win-ter to a forest. Dry frozen earth covered in golden stubble or light brown grasses reflects more win-ter sun than a deep dark forest. The forest will catch more sun and warm the area more. Now

drop a little snow on the area. The farm field becomes a blanket of re-flecting white while the forest re-mains dark and warming since the branches will remain mostly bare of snow. In summer too, crop-lands send more energy back out to space than forests. Obvious-ly, coniferous forests have a lower albedo in winter than farm fields yet even leafless deciduous forests have a lower winter albedo than farm fields.

As you drive on Connecti-cut roads, you can see hundreds of stone walls running deep into the woods. Those walls used to be field boundaries. Those old fields reflected much more sunlight than the modern trees. Do the scien-tists adjust for New England tree warming in their data records and forecasts of doom? I have never seen such a discussion, yet the sci-entists are quick to adjust the data the other way by several degrees to address claimed inaccurate histori-cal measurement practices.

When I hear, “The science is settled,” I wonder, “What sci-ence?” Where in the writings on scientific philosophy is it suggest-ed that only supporting evidence should be discussed? Where does it say adjust raw data before the public can access it? Where does it say to only discuss the supporting points when proposing changes in public and government policy? Why do computer models neglect the warming effects of increased tree coverage? And the increase in tree coverage is massive, 860,000 square miles in 35 years.

Did you get a little angry when I wrote that worn asphalt cools the planet better than trees? Why? Be-cause you are offended that peo-ple blindly declare trees are a pana-cea without justification? Or was it because your faith in trees is being challenged? A scientist should be-come angry upon learning of de-ception or hiding of information. The deception violates scientific principles. Anger associated with data that contradict or, at a mini-mum, do not advance a theory is not justified and is unscientific.

Compared to climatology, I am aware of no other “scientific” en-deavor where so much manipula-tion and omission has occurred. The tobacco industry is the only

thing that comes to mind, but that was not a government/university led scientific endeavor, it was pri-vately funded propaganda to ad-vance the tobacco industry.

No one can refute the tree albe-do effect. It’s a scientific fact that forests warm the planet more than other surfaces. What you will see in most cases where tree albedo is acknowledged is frantic “hand waving.” Hand waving, as the mental image the metaphor in-vokes, is the wild written gestic-ulations intended to distract one from the uncomfortable truth just exposed. “Yes trees warm but…”

But trees absorb CO2 right?

Trees do but forests don’t. A ma-ture forest is in equilibrium re-garding CO

2. Its rotting understo-

ry is emitting on average as much CO

2 as the new growth is absorb-

ing, not to mention the methane that the rotting forest floor emits which is rated as 21 times more warming than CO

2.

Trees are not a panacea. I have written previously that the Mary-land State Highway Administra-tion program which strips the road-side soil bare of its protecting weeds and grasses to plant trees in order to “save the bay” is unscien-tific. Weeds and grasses are much better at minimizing erosion than the bare soil under a mature tree, but what lobbyist would profit from convincing our non-techni-cal mostly lawyer/political science politicians of this fact?

If someone refuses to believe the high albedo of forests heats the planet, why? It’s a scientific result.

If someone grudgingly acknowl-edges the warming impact of trees but suppresses the fact for fear of confusing the public and harming political policies, what are his pol-itics? What are his ethics? What is his view of his fellow man, too stu-pid to deal with facts?

Trees are terrific. Human civi-lization could not have advanced very far without spear shafts, bows, ax handles, barrels, doors, cabins, wagon wheels, or wooden sailing ships. Ancient man advanced by cutting down trees to clear farm land while building things with the harvested wood. Modern man realized the limits of the resource and now farms trees for wood and pulp just as other crops are farmed for food, fibers, and drug-induced pleasure.

Trees are a compromise, more is not always better. Spend a few

hours observing the life in a mead-ow. Then visit the place 15 years later after a government-funded company profited from eradicat-ing the meadow with tree plant-ings. Count and compare the va-riety and quantity of life: birds, insects, plants, reptiles, and mam-mals. I think you’ll find the ma-ture stand of trees appears as a des-olate barren waste compared to a meadow. More trees are not always better.

I am not suggesting a single tree be harmed. I am suggesting people

think, learn, question. In my col-lege days my left-leaning acquain-tances were fond of the phrase, “Question Authority”, even wear-ing buttons and shirts with the phrase. Why today are so many people so fond of the new phrase, “The Science is Settled?”

“Question Authority,” very dif-ferent from “Defy Authority,” is a patriotic reminder to remain vigi-lant. “Settled Science” is a tyranni-cal call for closed minds and op-pression.

Finding WoodsboroOctober 20, 2018

www.FindingWoodsboro.com


Kittens at heart

Linda Shea

As people get older, many give credence to the philosophy that age is just a number. In consid-ering the adult cats at the shelter, many are still kittens at heart and unaware of their age. Currently, the Frederick County Division of Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center has over one hundred fif-ty-seven felines at the shelter and another ninety-plus in foster care. While we have over many years witnessed a great improvement overall regarding the population of unwanted felines, these num-bers can be discouraging. Howev-er, knowing we have a community supportive of our ongoing efforts to save lives, we constantly try to come up with strategies to moti-vate potential adopters. Often-times, those strategies include a reduced adoption fee for a specific pet population.

From now through October 31, cats eight months old and older will have a discounted adoption fee of $15.50 to cover the manda-tory rabies vaccine and county pet license. The discounted fee doesn’t mean that there is anything wrong with these felines, or that they are worth less. We hope that the dis-counted adoption fees will en-courage potential adopters to con-sider adopting an older cat. Older cats typically make up most of our feline population, as kittens are of-ten spoken for within hours of be-ing placed on our adoption floor. It is not uncommon to see potential adopters gravitate towards newly returning foster kittens as soon as they enter our lobby and express an interest in adopting even before they have had a chance to inter-act individually. Kittens are fun, entertaining, and possess an un-equaled “cute factor”.

Gemma and Jaxx are just about one year old. They were adopted from the shelter as young kittens, but returned when their adopter was deployed. Just beyond the un-official six-month mark of kitten-hood, they have been overlooked since their arrival in July for slight-ly younger counterparts. They are a bonded pair, having been togeth-er in life thus far, and they must be adopted together.

Our cat adoption floor has a wonderful variety of one-of-a-kind adoptables that are looking for once final chance at a forever home. In fact, we have over one hundred twenty-six adult cats at the moment were once kittens—some not too long ago, like Gem-ma and Jaxx. Our role for the next few weeks will be to promote our adult cats and showcase the fact that many are still kittens at heart.

Advertise With Us!For more information, contact

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PETS

Left: Meet Creamsicle a domestic shorthair male, age 3 years, bond-ed to Sweets, a 5-year-old domes-tic shorthair female

Right: Meet Gamma and Jaxx, bonded domestic shorthairs, age 11 months, female and male

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October Sky

For October 2018, the moon is last quarter on October 2, ris-ing at midnight. The new moon is on October 8. Right after sun-set on October 9, try to catch a neat string of the crescent moon, Mercury, and rapidly disappear-ing Venus along the SW hori-zon; binocs will help for Mercury. The waxing crescent passes north of Jupiter on October 11 and then close to Saturn on October 14. First quarter moon is Octo-ber 16, and the waxing gibbous moon passes north of Mars on October 18. The full moon, the Hunter’s Moon, is on October 24, but Halloween this year will feature a waning gibbous moon rising about midnight, a little late to treat young stargazers to, alas.

We can see all five naked eye planets in the evening sky early in October, but look fast! Mer-cury starts appearing low in the SW about October 10 and is just 3.2 degrees south of much bright-er Jupiter on October 28. But the real show is the dramatic changes in Venus’s size and phase as it rap-idly passes six degrees south of the Sun into the morning sky on Oc-tober 26. As October begins, look for Venus is twilight in the SW as a 16% lit crescent, the phase eas-ily noted in hand held binoculars! As she retrogrades between us and

the Sun, the planet grows larger but becomes a thinner crescent daily. Catching it in the evening will get harder and harder daily, and by month’s end, it rises before the Sun in the dawn!

Jupiter in Libra is also get-ting lost in the Sun’s glare in the SW twilight but does have that neat conjunction with Mercury at month’s end. It will be lost in Sun’s glare in November. Saturn is still out in Sagittarius in the SW, but also will be gone by Christ-mas. Even Mars is fading in the SE in Capricornus, but it will re-main in the evening sky well into 2019.

While the naked eye, dark adapted by several minutes away from any bright lights, is a won-derful instrument to stare up into deep space, far beyond our own Milky Way, binoculars are bet-ter for spotting specific deep sky objects. For a detailed map of northern hemisphere skies, about September 30 visit the www.sky-maps.com website and down-load the map for October 2018; it will have a more extensive cal-endar, and list of best objects for the naked eyes, binoculars, and scopes on the back of the map. Also available as the next month begins is wonderful video ex-ploring the October 2018 sky, available from the Hubble Space Telescope website at: http://hub-blesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky/. Sky & Telescope has highlights at http://www.sky-andtelescope.com/observing/as-tronomy-podcasts/ for observing the sky each week of the month.

The Big Dipper falls lower each evening. By the end of October, it will be only the three stars in the handle of Dipper still visible in the northwestern twilight. By contrast, the Little Dipper, while much fainter, is always above our northern horizon here along the Gulf Coast.

To the southwest, Antares and Scorpius also set soon after twi-light, and will be gone by month’s end. East of the Scorpion’s tail is the teapot shape of Sagittari-us which marks the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Saturn lies above of the pour spout now. Looking like a cloud of steam coming out of the teapot’s spout is the fine Lagoon Nebula, M-8, easily visible with the naked eye. This stellar nursery is ablaze with new stars and steamers of gas and dust blown about in their ener-getic births. In the same binocu-lar field just north of the Lagoon is M-20, the Trifid Nebula. Many other clusters visible in binoculars as you sweep northward along the Milky Way, and are plotted on the sky map for the month.

The brightest star of the north-ern hemisphere, Vega, dominates the sky overhead. To the north-

east of Vega is Deneb, the bright-est star of Cygnus the Swan. To the south is Altair, the brightest star of Aquila the Eagle, the third member of the three bright stars that make the Summer Triangle so obvious in the NE these clear autumn evenings. To the east of Altair lies tiny Delphinus, a rare case of a constellation that does look like its namesake.

To the east, the square of Peg-asus is a beacon of fall. South of it lies the only bright star of fall, Fomalhaut. If the southern skies of fall look sparse, it is because we are looking away from our Gal-axy into the depths of intergalac-tic space. The constellation Cas-siopeia makes a striking W, rising in the NE as the Big Dipper sets in the NW. Polaris lies about mid-way between them. She contains many nice star clusters for bin-ocular users in her outer arm of our Milky Way, extending to the NE now. Her daughter, Androm-eda, starts with the NE corner star of Pegasus’’ Square, and goes NE with two more bright stars in a row. It is from the middle star, beta Andromeda, that we proceed about a quarter the way to the top star in the W of Cassiopeia, and look for a faint blur with the na-ked eye. M-31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is the most distant object visible with the naked eye, lying about 2.5 million light years dis-tant. It is a bigger version of our own Galaxy which it may col-lide with about three billion years from now.

Below Andromeda is her he-ro, Perseus. In his hand is a star most appropriate for Halloween, Algol. This star “winks” at us for six out of every 70 hours which Arabian astronomers centuries ago found spooky, hence naming it “the ghoul.” We know today it is an eclipsing binary system, with the larger, cooler orange star cov-ering 80% of its smaller, hotter neighbor during the “wink.” At the foot of Perseus, the hero of “Clash of the Titans,” is the fine Pleiades star cluster the “Seven Sisters” that reveal hundreds of cluster members in large binoculars. This might be the best object in the sky for binocular users.

Winter will be coming soon, and in the NE we see yellow Capella ris-ing. It is the brightest star of Auriga the Charioteer, and is actually a pair of giant stars the same temperature as our Sun but at least 100X more luminous and about 10X larger than our Sun. It lies about 43 light years distant. A lit-tle farther south, below the Pleiades, orange Aldebaran rises. It is the eye of Taurus the bull, with the V shaped Hyades star cluster around it making the head of the bull. This colorful gi-ant star is only 2/3 as hot as our yellow Sun, but 44X times larger and at 65 light years distant, one of the closest of these monster stars.

EARTH AND SKY

MID-ATLANTIC WEATHER WATCH: Fair and mild (1,2) with heavy rain, STORMS in the southern part of the region (3,4,5); fair and cool (6,7,8) with more showers mainly in the south (9,10). Fair and cool again (11,12,13,14,15,16) with yet more showers in the south (17,18,19). Cloudy, cool (20,21,22,23) with rain and possibly snow in the north (24,25,26); fair and colder (27,28,29) with more rain and some snow in the north (30,31).

TORNADO WATCH: The Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack sees no tornado ac-tivity for the Mid-Atlantic Region in the month of October.

FULL MOON: October’s FULL MOON with occur on Wednesday, October 24. The name traditionally given to October’s FULL MOON is HUNTERS MOON because of the extra light it provided many Native Americans who were able to extend their hunt for food

into the early evening. It was also referred to as MOON OF FALLING LEAVES and YELLOW LEAF MOON by the Cree Tribe because many of the trees lose the last of their leaves during the month and because of the many leaves turn-ing that color during October. It also been known as the BIG FEAST MOON because of the bountiful harvests and fall celebrations going on at this time.

SPECIAL NOTES: The 2019 edition of The Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack is now available and can be purchased at many local retail locations throughout the region. For a complete list of where you can buy our 223rd is-sue, go to www.almanack.com and under Talk to The Almanack, click on Where To Buy Us or you can order online and have your copy shipped right to your door! You should consider becoming a Friend of the Almanack (FOTA and get immediate access to our online digital version and, as an annual FOTA member, get access to NEXT YEAR’s edition as well! A great deal for a great almanac!

Take advantage of the many autumn celebrations across the Mid-Atlantic Region. Check local newspaper for ones to be held nearest you and make plans to attend with the whole family. Many have contests for the best scarecrow or Jack O’ Lantern carving. This is a great opportunity to spend quality time with your children and help develop their imagi-nations and express their creativity (and your own, too!). National Fire Prevention Week in 2018 is October 7-13. Make sure all basic items such as flashlights, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, and escape ladders are functional and ready to go if needed. Remember to get your flu shots early this year!

HOLIDAYS: Columbus Day falls on Monday, October 8, and United Nations Day is celebrated on Wednesday, the 24. Halloween falls on Wednesday, October 31.

THE GARDEN: One last effort at weeding will help to improve the appearance of your garden throughout the win-ter. Any weed that you can eliminate from the garden this fall will possibly prevent thousands of weed seeds from sprout-ing in the garden next spring! Mulching fall planted perennials will keep the soil warmer longer, allowing root growth to continue. The longer your house plants were allowed to remain outside in the fall, the more shock they will go through when they are finally moved indoors. If you haven’t brought them in yet, do it now!

J. GRUBER’S THOUGHT FOR TODAY’S LIVING

“Keeping one’s eyes, ears, and mind open but mouth closed, often leads to a more thorough understanding of life’s problems.”

Farmers’ Almanac“The trees are in their autumn beauty,

The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water

Mirrors a still sky.”William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)


Og — Boy of Battle Chapter XIIIOg and Ru to the Rescue (chapter conclusion)Irving Crump Dodd, Mead & Co. 1925

Og realized that once these great creatures had gained the trees he would have to move swiftly over the ground to outdistance them and so he ran as never before, for he realized that now his efforts alone must save the tribe. Soon he heard behind him the crashing and swishing of branches and glancing over his shoulder he could see that the forest was full of vague, sinis-ter shapes that swung swiftly from one swaying limb to another mak-ing toward him with terrific speed. Og exerted every bit of energy he had then and despite the fact that he was panting from his efforts his feet fairly flew over the ground. He knew they were gaining on him. He could hear their voices only just behind him it seemed. He could al-most feel them at his back and he did not know what moment one of them would come hurtling out of the trees to pounce upon his shoul-ders and bear him to the ground there to strangle him in its deadly grasp.

And then just when he began to feel that he could not hold his mad speed much longer he burst clear of the forest and out into the open on the slopes of the old vol-cano. A hasty glance about showed him that Ru had posted his war-riors well and that they were care-

fully hidden, and through the en-trance to the deadly little valley and beyond across the still pool on the farther side, massed on a shelf of overhanging rock he could see the remainder of the tribe ready and waiting.

So far all was well but Og real-ized that the hardest ordeal for him was yet to come. He must decoy them into the gas pocket. Glanc-ing over his shoulder he could see the great gorilla-like beings swing-ing down from the trees thor-oughly enraged now for they real-ized that they would have to follow the fugitive on foot over the rocks and their short, under-developed legs were not meant for this sort of work. However, seeing the rest of the tribe at bay and so close at hand heartened them for in their sham-bling way they came on scrambling over rocks and boulders using their long arms to help them in their awkward running. But here they were no match for Og who even slackened his pace and still kept well ahead of them. Up the slope he hurried to the very entrance of the little valley. Then on the thresh-old of that trap of death he paused a moment while he filled his lungs with pure clean air, and holding his breath plunged into it. Through the valley he sped, past the carcass-es of the hyenas and the rhinoceros and on down toward the clear pool.

Skirting the shores of this he hur-ried with unslackened speed, and though he could hold his breath no longer he was careful not to breathe

too deeply of the deadly air. He had traversed three quarters of the ter-rible gas pocket ere a sense of gid-diness came over him. Grimly, dog-gedly he fought it off and spurred himself onward. He had not far to go now. Only a short distance; a very short distance. He must hold out. He must reach the shelf on which his people stood. He must not stagger. He must keep straight on for if he should go down now, there would be no hope for him and perhaps he might arouse the suspicions of the gorilla-men and they would not follow him. On he pressed, he was scrambling up the steep slope to the shelf. The air was getting purer, sweeter, fresher. His head was clearing. Up and up he climbed and presently with the shouts of the Hairy People sound-ing about him and willing hands reaching down toward him he was pulled up onto the shelf beside Ru and safety.

Then he turned with the others to see what was happening. As he had hoped and expected the goril-la-men had followed him into the valley. Scrambling along they had all come through the narrow en-trance and were swarming over the rock sides of the pocket and about the clear pool in the center. They came, more slowly now for they perceived that the Hairy Men were at bay waiting for them to attack.

But while Og and his compan-ions waiting or the shelf tense and alert watched them come, they saw the foremost of the band, and those who had been in the pocket longest, begin to raise their heads and feel at their throats as if to throw off a mysterious hand that clutched them there and cut off their breath. They could see too fear on their ugly faces and conster-nation in their attitude. Soon oth-ers were acting queerly and ere long the entire band became fearful and panic-stricken. They did not know what the trouble was. They could not understand what treacherous, mysterious enemy was grappling with them. All that they knew was that some hidden force had sud-denly robbed them of the power to breathe; to drink in the fresh air that their lungs suddenly seemed to demand with insistence. Some

of them were growing dizzy. The Hairy Men could see them stagger-ing about groggily, until one by one they collapsed and with a few con-vulsive shivers lay still.

Once they began to fall they dropped off like flies. Some of them screamed out in their ago-nies, some fought each other, bit-ing, clawing, scratching; some stormed in a towering rage clawing the air and threshing about with their long arms, some plunged or fell into the cool still pool, and some of them just staggered about until they sank down with a groan and lay still. It was a hideous sight to witness and Og and Ru and the rest of the Hairy Men looked on in horror and forgot to cheer their vic-tory. As for the gorillas, all thoughts of their attack upon the Hairy Men were abandoned in the face of this terrible mysterious death that was upon them. None of them had in-telligence enough to comprehend what it might be and so none of them had presence of mind enough to flee out of the valley, until a few sick and weak and staggering real-ized that never while they remained in the trees of the forest had such a disaster overtaken them and all but unconscious made their stumbling way toward the entrance to the pocket. But most of them collapsed ere they gained the fresh air once more, and those who did win past the entrance went down under the stone hammers of the Hairy Men whom Ru had hidden there for just that purpose.

Og and Ru and the rest of the Hairy People lingered a long time on the shelf overlooking the pock-et. They stayed until the last ugly huddled form on the shores of the

clear rock-bound pool lay still. And then because the horrors they had just witnessed had cast a spell of de-pression over their normally buoy-ant spirits they slowly left the ledge on which they crouched and climb-ing the rocky sides of the old volca-no made their way around the little valley of death and on toward the great cave where the women and children of the tribe awaited in fear and trembling their coming and the news they brought with them.

And Og and Ru and the rest of them knew that now they could never return to their caves in the cliff by the river for there were just as many horrible mangled forms of those great gorilla-like crea-tures back there crushed under the stones that had been hurled on top of them as there were in the val-ley of death and the Hairy Peo-ple could not live with constant reminders of these dreadful be-ings and the horrible fate they met constantly before them in the very stones that had crushed out some of their lives. And so it happened that when a great council fire was lighted in the huge cave and the warriors and hunters had gathered about it to talk of things that were best for the tribe Og because he had turned the tide of battle and was the hero of the Hairy People was appointed with Ru to go out and find a new home to which the tribe should migrate.

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